Early V For Vendetta Review!
Source: L February 13, 2006
Scooper 'L' caught the screening of V For Vendetta this weekend at WonderCon in San Francisco and has sent us a review:
MILD SPOILERS:
The movie is actually pretty strong, which surprised me. It is a movie about true ideas and not nonsense action. It stays quite true to the tone of the original Alan Moore comic, with some slight deviations. I was initially skeptical. When V first shows up in the film after saving Evey (Natalie Portman), I was afraid we were in for a bad time when he begins alliterating like crazy: "The vain vestige of their vernacular, etc". Luckily it's actually played pretty comically (she answers back: "Are you, like a crazy person?") and is thankfully the only time he does it in the film. Hugo Weaving as V is funny, charming and menacing at the same time. He claims to only care about restoring freedom to London, yet at the same time conducts murders to avenge his own past. The action scenes, particularly V slashing people apart, are great. It's a nice "R" rating too, with streams of blood shooting from victim's necks as he rushes by. Though the special effects do a slightly strange addition of adding circular "motion" blurs on his knives as he throws them, during the final fight scene at the end. Perhaps trying to simulate comic motion? Another slightly goofy moment is when V is seen sword-fighting against a knight in armor statue within his lair. He sort of awkwardly runs into it and then falls back against a couch. I get we need comic relief in a movie this dark, but still...
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