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V for Vendetta
Evey Hammond gets her life saved by a man in a mask who calls himself V. Soon after she starts taking interest in knowing his past, and decides to aid him in toppling those whose violence has resulted in this condition of Britain.
10 March 1970, London, England, UK
30 June 1963, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK
4 February 1956, Brighton, Sussex, England, UK
3 June 1989, London, England, UK
1967, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
17 October 1960, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK
February 14, 2017
Moore wrote the novel as a commentary on Thatcher's England and the film retains the London setting, but it only takes a few key phrases to echo the post-9/11 era and the rhetoric of the current American administration.
August 23, 2010
In adapting Moore's sprawling narrative into a workable screenplay, the Wachowski Brothers have come up with a balance of thoughtful philosophy and all-out action that feels more natural and organic than it did in their Matrix films.
April 14, 2013
The dark and stylized V for Vendetta is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing.
August 30, 2009
Daredevil in agitator garb
January 22, 2013
Whether you're mindless or Mensa, you'll find stuff here to challenge and trouble you, the way a good piece of speculative fiction should.
April 14, 2013
This is just darkness played bright, a disposable object but hardly objectionable.
October 18, 2008
By the movie's midpoint, the Wachowski brothers' screenplay has gotten so bogged down in back story that it takes 40 minutes for director James McTiegue to get back to the explosions that his 16-year-old target audience assumes will solve everything.
April 14, 2013
Just when we were ready to give up mainstream movies as braindead,along comes the controversial and gleefully subversive V for Vendetta, a piece of corporate-sponsored art that will have audiences rooting for a bomb-throwing anarchist.
August 26, 2010
In its ambition to weld a political message onto a comic-book movie it falls rather pitifully between two stools.
April 29, 2009
A brutally intelligent political thriller...
April 14, 2013
Speaking of love, things go blooey instead of gooey whenever heroine and hero come close enough to touch; far from being sensual, let alone erotic, the movie proves to be not much fun at all.
July 06, 2010
Alan Moore may be greatest victim of Hollywood's comic book adaptation craze.
