V for Vendetta
Evey Hammond and her unlikely but instrumental part in bringing down the fascist government that has taken control of a futuristic Great Britain. Saved from a life-and-death situation by a man in a Guy Fawkes mask who calls himself V, she learns a general summary of V's past and, after a time, decides to help him bring down those who committed the atrocities that led to Britain being in the shape that it is in.
20 September 1968, USA
1967, Wimbledon, London, England, UK
28 August 1969, Holland, Netherlands
16 March 1974, Berlin, Germany
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19 May 1965, England, UK
1954, Bermondsey, London, England, UK
4 April 1960, Ibadan, Nigeria
3 June 1989, London, England, UK
1967, Napier, New Zealand
13 May 1946, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
18 February 1948, Dalkey, Ireland
20 December 1964, UK
22 December 1993, England, UK
September 25, 1975 in Hampshire, England, UK
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
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.
July 06, 2010
Alan Moore may be greatest victim of Hollywood's comic book adaptation craze.
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.
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.
April 14, 2013
The dark and stylized V for Vendetta is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing.
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...
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.
August 30, 2009
Daredevil in agitator garb
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.
