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Directed by
James McTeigue Written by
Andy Wachowski, Larry Wachowski Cast
Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt [more]
Release Date
• USA: Mar 17, 2006
• UK: 3 Nov 2005
Budget USD 50,000,000
BoxOffice: $70.5M
Official Website:
V for Vendetta Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for strong violence and some language.
Running Time
2 hours, 12 minutes
Country USA, UK, Germany
Production Companies
Silver Pictures, Anarchos Productions Inc. (in association with), Warner Bros. (as Warner Bros. Productions Limited), Fünfte Babelsberg Film (as Fünfte Babelsberg Film GmbH), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (with the assistance of), DC Comics (Vertigo
Studio Warner Bros.
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• V for Vendetta (2005)
• V for Vendetta: At the IMAX
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V for Vendetta Reviews |
In a worst case scenario people will go to see this movie and simply enjoy themselves. This film is not your standard popcorn cinema fare. It is instead, a thinking persons’ action movie, one filled with deep-seated character motivations and stunning visual messages. [read review]
V for Vendetta is no screed. If you want to see a sci-fi action film packed with explosions, gunfire, knife-throwing and a man who is more than human fighting against insurmountable odds, then you can happily enjoy this movie and ignore its political implications. [read review]
V For Vendetta tries, but it never quite achieves the same tone elsewhere. Mostly, it's content to remain a compelling, visually striking political mystery with some big ideas woven into it—subversive notions about integrity, liberty, and political change. And though it stutters in getting it out, the film clearly means what it says. [read review]
Brutally gorgeous and seething with incendiary images, the Wachowski brothers' monumental call to revolution, based on Alan Moore's gloomy graphic novel about a masked madman who restores anarchy to the U.K., is a vivid but muddled pulp political parable. [read review] 
With so much potential - given V's extraordinary budget to let imaginations fly, a very timely interesting premise and a strong talented female lead who could actually handle brainy super-hero stufamagol - this could have been another sci-fi masterpiece,but it aint. [read review] 
"V for Vendetta" seemed to be structured in an almost Hitchcockian Fashion. Basically showing us figurative (though there will be literal) bombs, and weaving a web of tension and suspense over the entire film waiting to see them go off. [read review]
“V” is obviously a labor of love for the Wachowskis and their screenplay is reverent almost to a fault. There are moments of exposition which, while easily skimmed in the graphic novel, must be endured in their entirety on celluloid. [read review]
At the risk of pointing out the obvious, "V for Vendetta" is a revolutionary film, a movie project based on a comic-book series that actually features a masked character who isn't so much a hero as an anti-hero. [read review]
But what's wonderful about V for Vendetta is that it is, itself, artful. It plays Tchaikovsky next to Cat Power next to a wistful WWII croon while Portman provides her first truly great performance as an adult. [read review]
There is a ton of Matrix style of fighting that did not get boring or drag out. Overall if you are looking for a good action films then look no farther than V for Vendetta this is worth every star I gave it. [read review] 
There is something odd and compelling and well-written about this comic book revolutionary. Politics aside, this is an engaging, challenging film. Politics included, it's an outrageous political commentary. [read review]
V FOR VENDETTA won’t be for everyone. People who loves its message may find its form too blatant; people who enjoy its look and action may dislike its politics; some people may like nothing about it... [read review]
”V for Vendetta” is an action film disguised in pseudo heavy meaning that is as subtle as getting hit by a flatiron across the face. The saving grace for the film is the last twenty or so minutes. [read review] 
As V for Vendetta closes to the strident tone of Mick Jagger singing "Street Fighting Man," the thought occurs that the Wachowski Brothers might be mocking their audience as much as inciting it. [read review] 
Vendetta is cumbersome and imperfect, but if there’s a more subversive epic showing in the next few years, I’ll want to see it—fast, before the audience is taken away in chains and black hoods. [read review]
So when in the end it surprises us with a jolt of raw emotion, and we can actually see the nobility in a horrific terrorist act, the film really gets us thinking. And that's never a bad thing. [read review]
In its final moments, "V for Vendetta" devolves from stupid to insulting. And all that this stinker makes us crave is other films about the critical issues that it vandalizes. [read review]
"V for Vendetta" is the sort of movie that elicits passionate debate on the Internet among people with user names like Lord Asriel, Killdozer, Rant Breath and DocPazuzu. [read review]
The acting is terrific. Weaving manages to give a great performance from behind a mask, and Portman can do pretty much anything when given a chance to do it. [read review] 
I was hoping for an interesting story, and instead sat through a preachy treatise on bad government. V is for Vendetta, but v is for vain too. [read review] -2
So, yeah – Vendetta is a bit of a tough sell, story-wise. Add in the fact that its lead never takes off the mask, and it gets even tougher. [read review]
But provocation demands constant nurturing, which proves beyond the capabilities of this long, dialogue-heavy and frequently static film. [read review]
All the better, one supposes, to make "V for Vendetta" come across in the end like the pop anthem to liberty its makers intend it to be. [read review]
Such irritating distrust of the audience to keep up makes V's political and social commentary seem more cartoonish than insightful. [read review]
"V for Vendetta" qualifies as "an uncompromising vision of the future" only if monotony qualifies as a lack of compromise. [read review]
As a fan of the comic I feel that they could have given the movie a darker and grubbier look, but that is a minor niggle. [read review]
V for Vendetta demonstrates that a movie character deprived of expression amounts to little more than a mocking cartoon. [read review]
Ultimately, V is a unique and welcome slice of celluloid -- a political and symbolic thinking person's action movie. [read review] 
This isn't the "Matrix" by any means, although there are references to it. I'll bet that Alan Moore would approve. [read review]
Because of the film's powerful imagery and ideas, most viewers will be discussing this movie long after it ends. [read review]
The film is so layered with political subtext and symbolism that you'd have to be asleep or obtuse to miss it. [read review] A
V for Vendetta is a vividly vivacious and voluptuous volley of a very violently fun time. [read review]
The creepy setting is the best thing going for the movie. [read review]
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