RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Ultimate Jaburg53's rolling V for Vendetta review.

I thought it was good. The sad thing is that it could have been great. The director seemed competent in his job (though I think the spinning blades bullshit was retarded). The main problem is that the book was told in Britian through British eyes; but the movie is told in Britian through American eyes. The Wachowskis updating the story to be anti-Bush really fucks up the presentation. How can you sit an American audience in front of a screen, flash pictures of Iraq and Afganistan in front of them, and then expect them to accept a hero who blows up buildings? As the Brothers W showed in their last two Matrix movies, they're just not as clever as their hype makes them think they are. Portman's accent is fucking terrible in the opening bit. But a lot of the rest of the acting is pretty good. Kudos to getting John Hurt to be Big Brother. A little 1984 irony which once again makes me sad. This movie should go down in the books next to classics like 1984 or Planet of the Apes. Instead, it'll wind up with the collection of films that "should have been great, but got bogged down" like Equalibrium.