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V for Vendetta (2006) Rank 3 Reviews
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MovieMaze (Markus Ostertag)
San Francisco Chronicle (Ruthe Stein)
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
V for Vendetta
definitely hits high marks for a self-aware and symbolic futuristic thriller,
and should hit home for those that like to come away from a film with ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
Future Movies (Merlin Harries)
Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta is set in a futuristic London crumbling under the grip of Norse Fire and, more particularly, John Hurts fanatical Adam Sutler. It is a bleak vision of a city whose inhabitants have been stripped ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Future Movies (Merlin Harries)
Future Movies (Richard Strachan)
In a dystopian near-future Britain, an American war that has spiralled out of control has led to increased terrorist attacks, detention camps, and the seizure of power by a fascist authoritarian party that controls the populace through violence and ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Future Movies (Richard Strachan)
Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Movies continue to reflect the highly-charged political moods of the day with V for Vendetta, an adaptation of a comic book series turned graphic novel by Alan Moore (whose name is not listed in the film's credits). When Moore wrote his ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
I went to see V for Vendetta because the trailer proclaimed that it is "brought to you by the makers of the Matrix trilogy" which referred, of course, to the Wachowski brothers, who are credited with writing the screenplay but they both deferred to ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at The Reel McCoy (Patrick McCoy)
Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>
A noted historian once wrote, "An attraction to anarchy is the ultimate indulgence of a bourgeois culture" and, if that's true, thenV for Vendettais one of the first bonbons of our post911 society.There are a lot of things that make me ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Steve Rhodes <Steve.Rhodes@internetreviews.com>
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Famously disowned by creator Alan Moore (who, it should be noted, behaves towards every film adaptation of his works in the same way) and held back from release following 2005's London subway bombings (for more tweaking, according to producer Joel ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
The Online Rocket
This film, along with Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" and later, Terry Gilliam's "Brazil," seemed like the cinematic fulfillment of the dystopian promises of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" from 1927.
Although it may not achieve the following of ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at The Online Rocket
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Are you, like, a crazy person? asks Evey Hammond (Portman), moments after being rescued from the post-curfew clutches of a pair of government enforcer/thugs by the swashbuckling, masked enigma known only as V (Weaving). As it turns out, he is the ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
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Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (Randy Shulman)
[Hugo] Weaving finds the right balance of flamboyant flourish and quietly subtle, effective mannerisms. In this actor's hands, even the smallest **** of the head says so much. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (Randy Shulman)
Skiewed and Reviewed (Gareth J. Von Kallenbach)
V for Vendetta is a rare mix of style and substance that delivers the goods. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Skiewed and Reviewed (Gareth J. Von Kallenbach)
Wanniski.com (Matthew Wanniski)
This is not your traditional comic book-based film. It is far more original and daring, a classic in its own way, and deeply relevant to any age. Expertly balancing the cerebral with the physical, it challenges us to think for ourselves and draw our own c ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Wanniski.com (Matthew Wanniski)
Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
V for Vendetta's strength beyond its substantial movie-movie value is not in how it pitches its ideas, but to whom. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Premiere Magazine (Glenn Kenny)
Projectionist (Sean Caszatt)
Empire Magazine (Dan Jolin)
Setting out more to challenge us with its ideas than make us whoop at the action, Vendetta can be clumsy, but there are enough impressive flourishes to make up for its stumblings. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Empire Magazine (Dan Jolin)
EnPrimeur.ca (Nicolas Lacroix)
Là où les 2 derniers volets de La Matrice étaient prétentieux, souvent ridicules et généralement ennuyants, V pour Vendetta est tout le contraire. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at EnPrimeur.ca (Nicolas Lacroix)
Boxoffice Magazine (Christine James)
It all unfolds to an apex of the triumph of the best of humanity that could even change the real world. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Boxoffice Magazine (Christine James)
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
V for Vendetta is undeniably engrossing, and it offers a scattergun of satire that takes in all sorts of oppressive government behavior. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (Jack Garner)
Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
A fierce rival to any comparable fan followship. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Cinema Signals (Jules Brenner)
Uruguay Total (Enrique Buchichio)
Un film incómodo y desafiante sobre cuestiones plenamente vigentes en el mundo de hoy, que dejará insatisfechos a quienes busquen sólo entretenimiento. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Uruguay Total (Enrique Buchichio)
filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
The persuasive ideas found in the script prevail over the unavoidable comic-book clichés and the director's minimal learning curve ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at filmcritic.com (Sean O'Connell)
Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
V For Vendetta is massive popcorn entertainment, a blockbusterish undertaking with a great cast and even a few ideas (!) wedged into the exhilarating action sequences. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Jam! Movies (Liz Braun)
Cinenganos (Luis Martinez)
Lo que realmente sacude y hace reflexionar, radica en el paralelismo de este supuesto mundo alternativo con los gobiernos actuales. Buen ejercicio de los Wachowski. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Cinenganos (Luis Martinez)
ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Enjoyable, smartly designed and superbly acted thriller that actually gives you something to think about while you're watching stuff get blown up. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at ViewLondon (Matthew Turner)
Cinema em Cena (Pablo Villaca)
De certa forma, é possível que V de Vingança seja um dos filmes mais corajosos realizados por Hollywood depois dos atentados de 11 de Setembro. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Cinema em Cena (Pablo Villaca)
Panorama (Jean-François Vandeuren)
Même si l'effort manque diablement de subtilité on ne pourra réfuter l'extraordinaire doigté caractérisant le scénario des frères Wachowski et la réalisation de James McTeigue ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Panorama (Jean-François Vandeuren)
eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
solidly anchored by a masked Hugo Weaving and a few stunning action sequences. If only there had been more of them . . . ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at eFilmCritic.com (Brian Mckay)
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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
The less you think, the more you like it. Which isn't always a bad thing. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)
Draven99's Musings (Chris Beaumont)
Hollywood Jesus
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a young working-class woman named Evey who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man known only as âV.â
Profoundly complex, V is at ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Hollywood Jesus
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The Movie Insider (Ben Samara)
Arizona Daily Wildcat
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MovieLegacy.com (Dan Geer)
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
The movie is a lot of dark, Orwellian fun. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)
The Mercury News
Newsday (Gene Seymour)
This futuristic nightmare grasps at the same visceral uneasiness that juiced Matrix's cult before its impact was dulled by bloated sequels. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Newsday (Gene Seymour)
Tail Slate (Michael Sheridan)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
V is a quick-paced, dazzling film of social rebellion, but unfortunately leaves some interesting ideas out to die, topping the amount of intense thought with pyrotechnics. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
V packs an urgent filmmaking energy that pins you to your seat. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
V for Vendetta is that rare popcorn headbanger that can make you question your complacent notions of right and wrong, of enemy and defender. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Los Angeles Daily News (Bob Strauss)
New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
[An] enjoyable -- if occasionally irresponsible -- comic-book thriller. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at New York Daily News (Jami Bernard)
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Jonathan R. Perry)
'V' screams loudly and long, with visceral, kinetic fury and with style to burn. It's so brazen, it's kind of brilliant. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) (Jonathan R. Perry)
Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Though the dystopian elements here are pretty standard, V for Vendetta provocatively captures a society at the tipping point of rebellion. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Metromix.com (Matt Pais)
Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
The film's central question: do the ends ever justify the means? ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Movie Parables (Michael Elliott)
Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
Viewers who take the titular V as a literal ideal will be frustrated by his superficial positioning as a terrorist. It's hard to be figurative in the land of the blind. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Zap2it.com (Dan Fienberg)
Palo Alto Weekly (Tyler Hanley)
A political and symbolic thinking person's action movie. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Palo Alto Weekly (Tyler Hanley)
Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
As manifestoes go, this one's a beauty: draped like a funeral, smart as a whip and full of black-hearted romantic monologues and dramatically slit necks. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Houston Chronicle (Amy Biancolli)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
A visually sumptuous concoction that combines political allegory, bloody action, and a few stunning cinematic moments into a solid piece of entertainment. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at ReelViews (James Berardinelli)
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
At this point, 'V for Vendetta' seems more fashionable than radical. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (John Beifuss)
Movie Habit (Matt Anderson)
... is a vitriolic vociferation of vengeance and villainy. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Movie Habit (Matt Anderson)
MovieFreak.com (Gregory L. Amato)
. . . Hugo Weaving must have had a ball in V for Vendetta even if he did have to wear a mask for the entire movie. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at MovieFreak.com (Gregory L. Amato)
Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
There's no denying the value of Vendetta as an argument starter, even if the basic argument -- when is terrorism justified? -- is something less than novel. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Detroit Free Press (Terry Lawson)
Oscar Guy (Wesley Lovell)
A futuristic London where the government uses fear to elicit cooperation from the people is smashed by a man in a mask. V for Vendetta is an allegory of modern America. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Oscar Guy (Wesley Lovell)
Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (Greg Maki)
... The first must-see movie of 2006. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) (Greg Maki)
TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Brutally gorgeous and seething with incendiary images, the Wachowski brothers' monumental call to revolution, based on Alan Moore's gloomy graphic novel about a masked madman who restores anarchy to the U.K., is a vivid but muddled pulp political parable. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at TV Guide's Movie Guide (Maitland McDonagh)
Long Beach Press Telegram
Plugged In Online
In 2020, the world we have known is no more. Viruses, terrorism, global warming and economic meltdown have taken a grim toll. The United States has collapsed into coast-to-coast civil war. Great Britain has only weathered the societal maelstrom under the ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Plugged In Online
Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Under the guise of comic book entertainment, the movie asks ambitious questions and raises provocative issues. The end result is uniquely cool. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Aisle Seat (Mike McGranaghan)
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)
A cracking good comic-book tale. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Sacramento Bee (Carla Meyer)
San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
Nothing can upgrade pulp like a bunch of plush British accents. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at San Diego Union-Tribune (David Elliott)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Brutally gorgeous and seething with incendiary images, the Wachowski brothers' monumental call to revolution, based on Alan Moore's gloomy graphic novel about a masked madman who restores anarchy to the U.K., is a vivid but muddled pulp political ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
This isn't the Matrix by any means, although there are
references to it. It is worth the bucks for a ticket, ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Greenwich Village Gazette (Eric Lurio)
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Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Though I understand Mr. Moore's misgivings about Hollywood adaptations, there's something ironic about the man who created this iconic vigilante giving control over to the Hollywood empire. As Robert Rodriguez showed by adapting Frank Miller's ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Big Picture Big Sound (Joe Lozito)
Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
The story is set in London in the near future. The United States is referred to as the former United States and is apparently torn apart by disease, war and civil strife. Britain has evolved into a totalitarian state that deals harshly with ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Three Movie Buffs (Scott Nash)
MovieWeb (Julian Roman)
The film adaptation of the Alan Moore and David Lloyd classic graphic novel, "V for Vendetta", is a poorly paced and spectacularly disjointed rehash of Orwellian themes. It has a high production value and looks great, but suffers from a lack of ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at MovieWeb (Julian Roman)
San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
In ``V for Vendetta,'' a masked man blows up a building that is one of his country's principal symbols of power, and vows to topple another as the endgame in a yearlong terror campaign. He says his violent insurgency is directed against the government, ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at San Jose Mercury News (Bruce Newman)
Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
Now, here I am presented with the age-old critical dilemma that every reviewer pulls their teeth out over: should a film be judged solely on its cinematic qualities, or also on the message it chooses to convey? Huh?you're thinking. V for Vendetta? ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Bucket Reviews (Danny Baldwin)
ShowBIZ Data
Critics are asking a lot of questions about V for Vendetta, set in the near future when Britain is supposedly ruled by a dictator and is challenged by a swashbuckling masked man. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times: "Is this movie a parable about 2006, ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at ShowBIZ Data
Tail Slate (Michael Sheridan)
In a different time and place, no one would be questioning Vs motives or methods. However in this day and age, were not in a position to so easily sympathize with the cause of a terrorist.That aside, V for Vendetta is a film ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Tail Slate (Michael Sheridan)
Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
On the whole though I break-danced with V for Vendetta as its powerful positive attributes were enough for me to have a glorious time in my seat
with it all. Arrow sings: And all the king's horses and all the king's men, can ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Arrow in the Head ("The Arrow")
Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
V for Vendetta is a stylish psychological-political thriller about a crazed man who mixes his desire for personal vengeance with political violence. V is a man who blows up buildings and assassinates people for reasons that are more personal than ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Laramie Movie Scope (Robert Roten)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
It is the year 2020. A virus runs wild in the world, most Americans are dead, and Britain is ruled by a fascist dictator who promises security but not freedom. One man stands against him, ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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There's an interesting idea below the surface of V for Vendetta: a man made up of culture (Shakespeare, Faust, Joao Gilberto, etc.) and history (Guy Fawkes, and other incidents within the film world) stands up to a fascist government that wants to ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Critical Culture (Pacze Moj)
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Imagine a world in which the most powerful country of its age, asks - nay, demands - complete obedience from its citizens. Strict curfews are under order every night.
"Those caught breaking curfew will be prosecuted without leniency or exception," ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at The Observer Online
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If the Warner Bros name were not on the front in big letters, I'd find it hard to believe that a major studio would go near this material, but as a friend pointed out, it also released Good Night, and Good Luck and Syriana - although neither goes ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Sydney Herald News
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V for Vendetta is yet another comic book turned into a big-screen, big-budget spectacle. Only this time, the movie is based on a comic book most people have never read inspired by a notorious figure in English history most people have never heard of. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Dallas Morning News
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V FOR VENDETTA is a blockbuster Hollywood movie that, for a change, lives up to its hype. The funny thing is that, as an action movie, it is not nearly what you would expect. Sure, there is enough excitement to make the film entertaining, but is ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Hollywood Gothique
Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
It's hard to divorce the terrorist themes of V for Vendetta from the post-9/11 climate under which we live, despite the fact that its source material, Alan Moore's acclaimed limited series comic book of the same name, was published originally twenty years ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Qwipster's Movie Reviews (Vince Leo)
The Z Review
Back in 1981, critically acclaimed graphic novelist Alan Moore conceived an unrelentless vision of the future. His main character was a dark and twisted revolutionary who would stop at nothing to bring down a corrupt futuristic government. Only known by ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at The Z Review
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Has no concerns of following any normal conventions of entertaining its audience and seems more occupied with the loftier goals of getting viewers to consider its ideas. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Window to the Movies (Jeffrey Chen)
Statesman Journal
Supercala.com (John Venable)
Good, but not worth the $20 popcorn and cokes at the theater unless you know who Alan Moore is. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Supercala.com (John Venable)
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...a somewhat old-fashioned adventure flick, filled with action, humor, romance, politics, and the kind of swashbuckling that audiences hadn't seen in movies for many years. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at DVDTown.com (John J. Puccio)
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The year is 2020 and WWIII has come and gone. America has been reduced to a wasteland, and a group of insurgents in Britain has risen up, taken over, and started a new and âbetterâ government with a new Chancellor, Sutler (Hurt) and his right-hand ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Actors Ink (Ray Wong)
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V for Vendetta isn't unwatchable. It has its moments, but overly its a preachy version of the future where the government is as dark as they can be and the populous exists with a purity of soul, hinged on grand ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at PM Media Review (Mark Runyon)
The Dallas Morning News
But it is a super-cool, media-mad, pop confabulation in which things
blow up with fireballs that light the sky. And viewers are free to go ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at The Dallas Morning News
Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
In the end, it can't. Despite some noble elements and scenes that make one gasp in amazement, V for Vendetta falls apart too often to build up any permanent goodwill. That it diverges so sharply from Moore's text wouldn't matter if the ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Flipside Movie Emporium (Rob Vaux)
Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Does not show enough of the fascist government's oppression to get the audience riled up on the vigilante's side. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Compuserve (Harvey S. Karten)
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
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Natalie Portmanâs Evey Hammond ponders this and other questions after meeting our hero in a dark alley one night. When She blatantly violates an imposed curfew by the Chancellor, she is accosted by three policemen who plan to gang rape her. V ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at HugeReviews.com
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therepublic.com
âRemember, remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.â
Should you venture to âV for Vendetta,â my bet is, that phrase will leave your lips at least a ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at therepublic.com
Sioux City Journal
Set in the near future, it suggests a world of corruption, just ripe for terrorists. In England, where a prime minister rules with monstrous force, people believe the propaganda the media feed them. One man, though, is convinced there's more beneath the ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Sioux City Journal
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âV for Vendettaâ is a striking follow-up for the Wachowskis. Directed with confidence and intelligence by first-timer James McTeigue (an assistant director on âThe Matrixâ films), âVendettaâ is a film of purpose and provocation in these ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Sonic Cinema (Brian Skutle)
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"Osama must be smiling in his cave!" ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Ozus' World Movie Reviews (Dennis Schwartz)
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As V for Vendetta closes to the strident tone of Mick Jagger singing "Street Fighting Man," the thought occurs that the Wachowski Brothers might be mocking their audience as much as inciting it. In making their first film foray outside the hermetic ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Toronto Star (Peter Howell)
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
The movie undercuts itself with its garishly adolescent tone. ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Eleanor Ringel Gillespie)
Reel.com
Destined for cult status, V for Vendetta is a brazenly eccentric film that operates as an Orwellian cautionary tale, futuristic thriller, and a scathingly funny attack on political conservatism. This adaptation of Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1989 ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Reel.com
(Tony Medley)
No wonder Western Union went
out of business; Hollywood is sending all its messages in hundred
million dollar movies! V for Vendetta (based on a graphic novel,
co-created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, published in 1981 ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at (Tony Medley)
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The Wachowski Brothers have given themselves a convenient âoutâ clause if âV for Vendettaâ doesnât work (and it doesnât); they can point the finger at first-time director James McTeigue, making his debut after serving as the first ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Bullz-Eye.com
The Movie Insider (Ben Samara)
Vendetta is set several decades into the future. The United States has fallen from power and Great Britain has become a totalitarian state ruled by an omnipresent dictator named Adam Sutler (John Hurt). We rarely see him in person, but ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at The Movie Insider (Ben Samara)
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As George Clooney admitted in his otherwise genially back-slapping acceptance speech for his Best Supporting ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)
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Something is wrong in the totalitarian state of England. Actually, everything is wrong: minorities, gays, and "radical" protesters have disappeared into death camps, the secret police known as "fingermen" rule the night, and the population has ...read the complete V for Vendetta movie review at Boston Globe
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