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V for Vendetta, 4/5.

Caught this movie during the week and really liked it. Natalie Portman is excellent, and “V” is suitably freaky with his mask. I read the novel a long time ago, so I didn’t really notice anything too jarring about the screenplay (I think it changed from tyranny vs. anarchy to tyranny vs. pseudo-democracy in it’s message) although the graphic novel writer (Allan Moore) withheld his name from the credits. But he does that will all his movies – just as well considering one of them was the awful League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2/5.

So that I don’t spoil it – it’s a dark near-future story set in Britain. There is a tyranny of fear and one man stands against the system, inspired by Guy Fawkes and the 5th of November (with suitable license on historical accuracy). Much mumbo-jumbo, action and love-story commences with many corny psuedo-American liberal hyperbole, but the accents are pretty decent.

Watch, rent, maybe even buy it.

Amazon.com:

V for Vendetta graphic novel
League of Extraordinary Gentleman DVD, graphic novel