V for Vendetta (2006)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 238
Fresh: 173 | Rotten: 65
Visually stunning and thought-provoking, V For Vendetta's political pronouncements may rile some, but its story and impressive set pieces will nevertheless entertain.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 48
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 19
Visually stunning and thought-provoking, V For Vendetta's political pronouncements may rile some, but its story and impressive set pieces will nevertheless entertain.
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Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government has risen to complete power. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) is rescued by a vigilante named V (Hugo Weaving) -- a caped figure both articulate and skilled in combat. V embodies the principles of rebellion from an authoritarian state, donning a mask of vilified
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Cast
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Natalie Portman
Evey -
Hugo Weaving
V, William Rookwood -
Stephen Rea
Finch -
Stephen Fry
Deitrich -
John Hurt
Adam Sutler -
Tim Pigott-Smith
Creedy -
Rupert Graves
Dominic -
Roger Allam
Lewis Prothero -
Ben Miles
Dascomb -
Sinead Cusack
Delia Surridge -
Natasha Wightman
Valerie -
Eddie Marsan
Etheridge -
Billie Cook
Little Glasses Girl -
Amelda Brown
Wardrobe Mistress -
Charles Cork
Barfly -
Andy Rashleigh
Fred -
John Standing
Lilliman -
John Ringham
Old Man -
Richard Campbell
Security Guard -
Guy Henry
Heyer -
Dulcie Smart
Civil War News Poppe... -
Gregory Donaldson
Operator -
Martin Savage
Denis -
Michael Simkins
Parliament General -
Juliet Howland
Middle Class Mum -
Derek Hutchinson
Bureaucrat -
Joseph Rye
Jones -
Raife Patrick Burche...
Studio Technician -
Matthew Bates
Finch's Fedco Man -
Ian Burfield
Tweed Coat Fingerman -
Chad Stahelski
Storm Saxon -
William Tapley
Radio Man -
Jason Griffiths
Biology Teacher -
Malcolm Sinclair
Major Wilson -
David Leitch
Convenience Store V -
Cosima Shaw
Patricia -
Simon Holmes
Barman -
Megan Gay
BTN News Poppet -
Mark Longhurst
Little Glasses Girl ... -
Clive Ashborn
Guy Fawkes -
Emma Field Rayner
Guy Fawkes Lover -
Mark Phoenix
Willy Fingerman -
Alister Mazzotti
Baldy Fingerman -
Roderick Culver
BTN News Poppet -
Tara Hacking
Vicky -
Antje Rau
Laser Lass -
Patricia Gannon
Little Glasses Girl ... -
Oliver Bradshaw
Old Man -
Jack Schouten
Middle Class Boy -
Caoimhe Murdock
Middle Class Sister -
Brin Rosser
TV Executive -
Adrian Finighan
News Anchor -
Bradley Steve Ford
Evey's Brother -
Madeleine Rakic-Plat...
Young Evey -
Selina Giles
Evey's Mother -
Carsten Hayes
Evey's Father -
Grant Burgin
Operator -
Imogen Poots
Young Valerie -
Laura Greenwood
Sarah -
Kyra Meyer
Christina -
Paul Antony-Barber
Valerie's Father -
Anna Farnworth
Valerie's Mother -
Mary Stockley
Ruth -
Simon Newby
Tube Station News Po... -
David Merheb
Young Man -
Daniel Donaldson
Young Black Detainee -
Ben Posener
Water Shortage News ... -
Ian T. Dickinson
Avian Flu News Poppe... -
Sophia New
Quarantine News Popp... -
Gerard Gilroy
Surveillance Man -
Eamon Geoghegan
Surveillance Man -
Matt Wilkinson
Little Glasses Girl ... -
Martin McGlade
Victoria Station Fin... -
Richard Laing
Parliament Lieutenan... -
Julie Brown
Three Waters News Po... -
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All Critics (238) | Top Critics (48) | Fresh (173) | Rotten (65) | DVD (41)
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.
Top CriticThis is just darkness played bright, a disposable object but hardly objectionable.
The dark and stylized V for Vendetta is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing.
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.
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.
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.
In its ambition to weld a political message onto a comic-book movie it falls rather pitifully between two stools.
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.
Alan Moore may be greatest victim of Hollywood's comic book adaptation craze.
Daredevil in agitator garb
You have to really credit Hugo Weaving for pulling in a strong performance, helping to carry the film over his back, and never really reveal his face.
Moore and Lloyd posed this paradigm in a Cold War era and it never came to pass. Leave it to the Wachowski Brothers to update it for the War on Terror, or rather its aftermath.
Better than the original comic. Seriously.
V for Vendetta is a milestone. Maybe not a big marker, but a milestone nonetheless.It is anti-establishment redux.
Forget the faux accent, it's the raw emotion [Portman] displays, especially in the film's latter stages, that's positively Streep-like and most captivating.
Contentious, pretentious but with a great last 20 minutes.
The details of V's beef with society are hazy, but the film has a certain purity of spirit.
Major studio pictures can certainly be more creative, but they're rarely as bold as this.
blends modern-day politics with good old-fashioned derring-do to explore the grey areas (in a very grey-looking London) between freedom, justice, dissidence and retribution.
When the script sticks close to Alan Moore, it works best. Which, sadly, is seldom.
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- V: A man after my own heart.
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- V: There are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidences.
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- V: People should not be afraid of their government, government should be afraid of their people.
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- V: The only verdict is vengeance a vendetta.
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- V: People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
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- Evey: No one will ever forget that night and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.
Discussion Forum
| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Better than The Matrix | 2 months ago | 5 |
| V for Vendetta: Sociopolitical Commentary and an Insight into the Self | 6 months ago | 4 |
| Hated the art of the book... | 6 months ago | 1 |
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