 "Guy Fawkes Day Sci-Fi Wachowski Drama" | 2009-11-06 |
| - Reviewed By User: AJUFIGATSP9AQ |
| With the feel of the graphic novel the film looks fantastic and has a story to match. I have watched it 5 times and it feels fresh! 5.1 sound is strong in dolbyhd as pic looks great. Review and screening on the 5th of November on Sony Denon Energy |
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| "STOP! GO BACK! ITS 2006" | 2009-10-20 |
| - Reviewed By josefbush1 |
Accidentally it happens that an innocent and unsuspecting young woman is abducted by a masked terrorist who holds the nation's capital in his grip. That's it.
And this screenplay was written almost ten years before its release. The Warchawski brothers created THE MATRIX films first. And in them all, Hugo Weaving; quite a step up, here, in my opinion, from those interminable, overwrought English pixie movies in elfin-babble starring Elija Wood and everybody else but him.
No, I don't need to have read any of the Lloyd/Moore graphic novels, I think. There are so many of these masterpieces of literary comics around nowadays, and everybody's doing them. But, a movie is still just a shadowplay. Nevertheless, it is always an event to see John Hurt in anything: The inquisitive First Officer from ALIEN, or THE ELEPHANT MAN, or the distinguished seducer from LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND, or HELLBOY's adoptive earth-father from the movie of the same name, or as the victim/narrator from 1984. That man's got something hardly any actor has; he can absolutely grip you and convince you of what he's doing within five minutes of any story. And you absolutely cannot forget him. Not even remotely attractive, but fascinating.
The movie V has (English) political and even historical overtones, based as it is on Guy Fawkes Day -- that's the annual holiday the English celebrate the attempted destruction of Parliament -- but the dotty Baroness Thatcher is gone, nonetheless, though not forgotten, and Britain is now Labor and the flow of cash out of England to Enron in Texas has ceased. One hopes. But nobody need be aware of any of that on first watching. V is very skillfully written, in that regard, so that whatever might slow things down to political mud wrestling is avoided, and the action is allowed to move at a brisk pace. All the elements of the story; the Dictator and his cronies; the police; the constabulary SWAT goons; the unintended female hostage/victim/accomplice (the sympathetic, winsome Natalie Portman) and her abductor/guru/hero (velvet-voiced Hugo, always in disguise) are in evidence and work as a team to reveal the story as it tightens and coils toward its inevitable end.
V is very easy to watch and understand. Exciting to look at, the story, it seems to me, is a meditation on this proposition: Cromwell liberated England from its Monarch and its aristocracy, but the Parliament, once it was free to do so sold the people to the nobility which has kept them enslaved ever since. The pertinent question is, what a nation would England be were the English people free to work for their benefit alone? And that causes us to wonder what a nation the United States of America would be, were this nation allowed to prosper for the benefit of all its citizens, equally?
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| "Awsome movie!" | 2009-10-15 |
| - Reviewed By fluffypigeon |
I love everything about this film except the overblown homosexual agenda. I don't take offence to it but I do have some problems with the militant issues implied. This aside, I found it patriotic and moving. Who ARE the terrorists really?
Definatly see this film...Very well done. |
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| "This Rocks!" | 2009-09-09 |
| - Reviewed By User: A2G0773XS6R763 |
| This is a must see cult classic.Great script, good actors, really moving.Makes you want to fight for what's right! And it arrived on time, in mint condition. |
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| "GREAT MOVIE AND SERVICE" | 2009-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A32W36XACW1UWL |
| I received my order within the same week and it was exactly what i expected..GREAT MOVIE my favorite |
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| "A Well Executed Adaptation" | 2009-08-21 |
| - Reviewed By tys07142 |
I saw the movie first, read the book after, and then watched the film again. The creators of this film took intelligence and delicacy into making a nearly flawless adaptation. Reason Being? Material that didn't make it to film is what would have destroyed it. V for Vendetta is not a word for word translation. V the film is a updated and different approach with everything that was the heart and soul of the book. They snipped and cut what they needed to and added fresh material to give the film more substance.
I really feel sorry for Alan Moore after the LXG movie. It really did no justice to him, and it did not display any of his writing talent. V for Vendetta however is bleeding with Moore dialogue. More than half of the films dialogue comes straight from the graphic novel, and it's really inspiring to see a hollywood movie do justice like that. And even the new and different scenes compliment the Alan Moore setting like you never would have guessed. Graphic novels like Watchmen and V are very cinematic but not everything can translate to film. Although it was nearly the same, the Watchmen picture did have a entirely different ending. This is simply because you can do different things in books that you can't in film.
Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman? Who would have thought? This duo turned out to be the best idea the film had. I'm not familiar with the other actors but they certainly deserve more and more screen time in their future. Portman is significantly different from the girl in the novel, but it was a smart move for the film. The independent and thought-provoking Evey in the film is way more interesting and inspiring than the girl in the book. Giving her a smarter role really gave the audience something more interesting. And Hugo? What can I say? Hugo has never basterdized a role in a film. He was spot on with V.
V for Vendetta is one of the benchmark comic book movies that really got it right. After seeing this I regained hope for all adaptations, because this one director thought to preserve the art of the book, and not just sell it. We really take for granted how much these people work to make a film an artwork, when one can simply just sell it with action, effects, and sexuality. I hope when anyone watches this film they can feel rewarded and not sold. |
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