Monday, April 03, 2006

V for Vendetta (Movie Review)


I cannot believe how many people love this movie. Reading every review along with an average score of 8.1/10 prompted me to see this very exciting film. But this excitement only sustained for the first half an hour of the film. Wachowski brothers' movies are known for its unrealistic but thought provoking story line. Matrix had every ingredient of a Wachowski brothers' story, Matrix trilogy was unrealistic in all aspect but excelled in graphical, story and succeeded in making us think ya this could happen. But V for Vendetta lacked everything except background sound. The story lacked suspense, lacked excitement, lacked colour, lacked life. It was a slow moving art film supposed to be liked by people who like movie because of its complexity. Even though the movie was set in year 2020 the set looks pretty old. And the 75% percent of the movie happens in night, Most of the actors wear black dresses. This makes the movie an absolute colourless and makes the audience sleepy. Our masked hero (Hugo Weaving) never shows his face in the whole movie. We need to appreciate him for accepting this role. When it come to Natalie Portman a full marks for her acting. She gave her best. Totally I would rate this movie 4.5/10.

The story goes like this:
The movie is set in Great Britain in the near future. Under the guise of several terrorist acts, a totalitarian government is elected to Parliament under Chancellor Adam Sutler (John Hurt) to save the country from these terrorists. The only problem is the people must give up a lot of their freedoms for being safe. The government eventually becomes cruel, corrupt, and oppressive to the people. Driven by a personal vendetta, a mysterious individual William Rookwood (Hugo Weaving) comes to the forefront to take up the cause of freedom. He wears a mask of Guy Fawkes to cover his face, and changes his name to only V. V's mission is to kill all the doctors who had tortured him at the detention center, and bring back justice to the country. On November 5, in the process of blowing up his first building, V rescues a young woman, Evey (Natalie Portman), from the secret police. V takes over the TV station and broadcasts a message to the country condemning the oppressors in Parliament. V invites all the people to join him in one year on Guy Fawkes Day to see him complete what Guy Fawkes couldn't, blow up Parliament.

* Sorry for this story spoiler
[* No commands please this is my personal view]

6 comments:

Arun R said...

Somehow I liked the movie...

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Anonymous said...

watched V for Vendetta recently, loved it. eye-candy effects, amazing how much character they developed into a mask, then again, maybe he was more than a mask...