Review of V for Vendetta (2006) by Marcb. — 19 Mar 2006

An enjoyable popcorn movie with a very weak, sad, and ultimately unfulfilling story. This is a movie that cant be deemed important or deeper than it claims to be unless you are 15 or younger. Some good acting from Portman and a very suttle Stphen Rea.

John Hurt is over the top creepy. Weaving is dashing although you never get to see him, but I couldnt help feeling that this movie was trying to make a statement. I ssues about the Koran and repression of gays, etc.

. But how do they answer these problems? By blowing up buildings and killing people! Not only that but once the biuldings are blown up and people are killed(many through out the film) where do they go from there? A question this movie fails to answer and chooses to ignore.

I couldnt help thinking how Osama bin Laden would love this movie's dim message and how Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. would be rolling in their graves. Go see it if you want to have to be entertained for a think free price, but if you are looking for a moral lesson on violence while be engaged visually, check out Munich or A History of Violence.