Review of V for Vendetta (2006) by Stephen J — 14 May 2015

The first time I watched it, I loved it. I was fifteen years old, I was a social outcast, and I enjoyed the idea of an ostracized, wounded man rising up against the oppression of the system. As an adult, I see a moderately suspenseful drama that takes itself too seriously, whose political propensities are so obvious that only a self-absorbed melodramatic teenager could miss them.

The only vendetta this film has is against political conservatism; it replaces President Bush with a fictitious corrupt British fascist regime and uses emphatic arguments to make the point that conservatives have been making for a very long time: too much government is a bad thing.

Some of V's points are valid, but they are lost amongst the left wing, redefine marriage message and the explosions. Teenagers everywhere will think the writers knew the very soul of American struggle.

Adults will see this for what is: Leftist Hollywood creatively pushing its agenda.