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V for very great cinema , 24 January 2009
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V for Vendetta
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Tim Piggott-Smith, Roger Allam, Adrian Biddle
Director: James McTeigue, Comic Book Classics
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Along with movie like American History X, Shawshank Redemption, A Few Good Man , Blade Runner, Equilibrium and a few others, this is a movie that manage to grip you at many levels with a fantastic and truely rich setting, while delevering an above the norm, powerfull story that won't be shew up for you and that could quiet possibly enhance your view or at least give you food for thoughts on some aspect of how far we are responsible for the state of our state.
Now, don't panic, this isn't a political drama that won't reach all the diferent age or people of your household, in fact, it's a kick ass action movie! Take Equilibrium, 1985 and mix it with a strong dose of comic book heroes and foes and there you have it.
This movie won't fall to any cliche neither would it brake pace just to try to drive home extra points to show it's cleverness, for the whole duration, this is a movie masterly focus and with no compromise to unnecessary overdone emotional strings.
But then again, this movie is like a homemade cheesecake by a veteran chef, you just have to look at the ingredient list to know that if someone can put such a quality list from the get-go you know you're in good hands. It's a faithfull recreation of a comic book of the same name (except for dates and tech level but he frame story is really there), but the compilation into a two hour movie can spell disaster, but the Wachowski brothers (The Matrix, Bound...) just got it perfectly right.
When it come to the cast, Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith in the Matrix, Precila Queen of the Desert..) while hidden under a mask deliver a really great presence and preformance just on a strong body language and an evenloping voice as alive in itself as Kiefer Sutherland's one in Phone Booth.
Natalie Portman, far from the static barbie doll performance of her Star Wars outting, give one of the strongest female performance in recent memorie, this is truely not an anthusiastic overstatement due to overexcitement, this is a really best work and a real warning that she's here to stay and will be counted on for the futur as an proper hight class actor.
The rest of the cast is solid and carry their role with perfect balance, John Hurt is just right as a totalarian dictator, the rage that man can display is huge!, Stephen Rea as an inspector trying to piece it all toghether while wondering witch side he's truely on, Tim Pigott-Smith as a fashist right hand man spreading terror are all notably giving a great performance and, special note for Stephen Fry role, that really bring the movie a deeper sence of credibility and human touch (not that it needed it, but, like chocolate on an ice cream, the more the better) with a small part that will stick in your mind.
James McTeigue ( worked on Dark City, the Matrix, Star wars: attack of the clone) direct flawlesly with a definite talent for impacting visuals, as his first movie as Director this is really impressive.
In a nut shell, this will make you really think about what do you allow your governement to do, what place if any as terrorism or freedom fighter have in the world and can you really tell the diference and more than this can we really notice when caution became fear and can we control it then? But all this in a compeling package for all, delivered with ease and embedded in a proper great action movie.
See this movie, and make your children watch it too!
 
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