Presentation that faithfully reproduces the film's somewhat schizophrenic visual My opinion of the image hasn't shifted from my original review of the HD DVD - this is a very fine-looking That hasn't stopped Warner from reusing the same transfer, so again we get an identical 1080p/VC-1 'V for Vendetta' hits Blu-ray a good 18 months after the HD DVD release. Still, I'd much rather see a film aim high and fail, than have it show no aspirations at all. Overall nightmare quality of the future it imagined than by what actually happened Some pretty unbelievable character and plot points) I was more affected by the Certainly,īy its weak climax (I won't spoil anything for you, but it asks us to swallow Than any recent "political" movie, outgunning even the passionateīeautiful 'Brokeback Mountain' and, thankfully, that crap piece of hackworkĬalled ' Crash.' It could also be said that the sum of 'Vįor Vendetta' works better than each of its individual parts. Is also far more explicit in its sensibilities and confrontational in its stance Here is a movieįar too ambitious and smart to be discounted for any narrative faults. I would never dissuade anyone from seeing 'V for Vendetta,' however. The action might have made for a more cohesive, emotionally satisfying work. On these wobbly legs, and perhaps a better integration of all the talk and all Sci-fi extravaganza or a political diatribe. Such dialogue, of course, was a staple of the 'Matrix'įilms, which often felt like talky Bergman films with a few action scenes mixed in for good measure - so much so that some audiences left the theater wondering if they'd seen a There is a very fine lineīetween using extensive expositional dialogue to reveal the motives of charactersĪnd using it to explain their actions, and 'V for Vendetta' often crumbles under Rigid melodramatic soliloquy/action scene structure. 'Matrix' films, for 'V for Vendetta' teeters on the edge of parody with its Perhaps McTeigue felt indebted to crib from the Wachowski's The movie at face value, its fatal flaw may not be one of political backbone,īut of a slavish devotion to the narrative style the Wachowski's pioneered inĪs directed by James McTeigue, 'V for Vendetta' is a film bursting with potential,Īt turns fascinating and frustrating, with some fantastic scenes and plenty Even if you haven't read the graphic novel and only take Story, claiming it was being diluted to appeal to the mainstream, among other accusations. Move on behalf of Warner, as Moore loudly decried the movie made out of his Granted, it was probably a wise marketing With 'The Matrix' trilogy, and not Moore. Wachowski Brothers, who of course turned the sci-fi and action genres upside-down Release, 'V for Vendetta' was largely promoted on the backs of producers the So it was a bit disconcerting to this fan that at the time of its theatrical Makes no apologies, sticking a swift middle finger right up the arse of the Here is a film that, however slyly and subversively, rips apart the Right and Original graphic novel, and today's current political climate. Yet it's not very difficult to see parallelsīetween the United States government that ruled at the time Moore wrote the Graphic novel by Alan Moore, 'V for Vendetta' is a tough film to discuss without Mainstream film to come out of Hollywood since the genre's golden age of the So goes the story of 'V for Vendetta,' possibly the most politically-charged The authorities are not going to stand by while V plots to start an uprising,Īnd send in Chief Inspector Eric Finch (Stephen Rea) to track down the renegadeīefore civil unrest turns into a full-blown revolution. Who disfigured him - has become the very menace he's supposedly fighting against. Weaving) - a bold, charismatic freedom fighter driven to exact revenge on those Quartered by the Government, she must determine if her potential savior, V (Hugo Of domestic bliss and raising a family, but after being figuratively drawn and Stars as Evey, a working-class girl who only dreams To destroy the totalitarian regime that dominates his nation? Natalie Portman Or oppressor? Who is "V" - and who will join him in his daring plot Who is the man who hides his scarred face behind a mask? Hero or madman? Liberator
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