From: "Rich Gauszka" 


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It may play here as an action movie but if true to the graphic novels,
warnings on Thatcherite Britain with a Guy Fawkes anti-hero won't strike
home.

It's got good initial reviews

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/v_for_vendetta/

but the BBC didn't care for it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2006/03/08/v_for_vendetta_2006_review.shtml
From the makers of The Matrix... Starring Natalie Portman of Star Wars...
Adapted from Alan Moore's genius graphic novel... V For Vendetta is... a
bit of a mess. Portman is Evey, a young woman drawn into the dangerous
world of V - a masked freedom fighter/terrorist trying to bring down a
fascist government in futuristic Britain. There are a lot of ideas here -
and two impressive set-pieces - but while it may provoke thought, it rarely
thrills or engages as a story.
Moore's comic was written in the 80s as a reaction to Thatcherite Britain.
Gripping and provocative, it presented a bleak vision of the future which
bordered on prophetic. The changes made in the Wachowski brothers'
adaptation (such as Evey's overwrought backstory) will irritate some, but
the major problem is that while having a masked (anti-)hero works on the
page, it's isolating on screen. Director James McTeigue rarely frames V
with any imagination and his scenes, which need to bristle with emotion and
wit, are static (it's pretty much a voiceover gig for Hugo Weaving, The
Matrix's Agent Smith). You're hard-pressed to give a damn about the man,
while the majority of Portman's energy is devoted to wrestling with an
English accent (she loses).

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