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...graphic novel by Alan Moore, was adapted for the screen by the notorious Wachowski brothers of “The Matrix” fame. The film is set in an Orwellian future, replete with governmental conspiracies, constant surveillance, and a harsh crackdown on political dissent. Portman compellingly plays Evey Hammond, the film’s protagonist alongside “The Matrix”’s Hugo Weaving as the masked liberator...
...Evey collide by chance on the eve of Guy Fawkes Day (an annual British celebration that few Americans are likely to have heard of before watching the film) and are drawn together by a plan to save England from the clutches of Sutler (John Hurt), a malevolent Hilter-esque Chancellor. The film chronicles the struggles of Evey and V over a full year against the countercurrent of Sutler and his minions who are determined to quash their terrorist plot...
...topics such as homosexuality, religious tolerance and fanaticism, and political dissidence, the film spreads itself too thin. The plot draws greatly from “Phantom of the Opera”—including the masked protagonist—however, the film’s love story between Evey and V feels rushed. Following her torture at the hands of V, Evey ends up predictably, but not convincingly, falling in love with her captor. Ironically,it is the semi-poignant vignette of lesbian love that overshadows the romantic bond between the film’s protagonists...
...product of a monstrous government medical experiment--mad fighting skills and a cruel sense of humor, and he used them to manipulate the media, assassinate officials in creative ways, stab people with big shiny knives and blow up buildings. Early in the comics he rescued a woman named Evey from government thugs, and she became his sidekick; later on he tortured Evey, to "help" her see his point of view. V was a freedom fighter, no question, but Moore never let you forget that he was also a terrorist, and as such he was both hero and villain. That...
...shot in black and white--and V may come off as a bit too noble for the movie's good. As both the product of violence and its perpetrator, he should be doubly twisted. "What was done to me was monstrous!" V snarls. "And they created a monster," Evey replies. But if V plays as a Phantom of the Opera monster, a Beauty and the Beast monster, a monster with a sweet, sad center, he becomes less than he should be: a mere action hero. Maybe that's a lot of nuance to ask of an action movie, but terrorism...