V for Vendetta film review

5 out of 10

 While watching the film, "V for Vendetta", I found it very easy to criticise this dystopian action film. Though this movie does have some redeeming qualities, and I did not find myself totally regretting watching the film, I think the highest I could possibly praise this film, is mediocre, at best.

 While the the majority of the concept, with all of the Guy Fawkes revolutionary "Remember, remember the fifth of November," definitely had the potential to become something memorable and, even possibly, meaningful, the film fell short and didn't really work over all. The film seemed to have two major problems with it, 1: it was based on the writings of a closeminded anarchist, and 2: It was directed by the Wachowski brothers, two directors that rely too much on action scenes and shallow entertainment. Now these two problems alone will definitely harm a films quality, but these two problems combined create a mismatched totally unbalanced film, that, as said before, doesn't really work. While watching, I found that, what was supposed to be a dystopian drama, very quickly turned into an overblown action movie that took itself far too seriously.

As I said earlier, this film does have some, emphasis on some, redeeming qualities. One being the well done performance of John Hurt as the chancellor. I couldn't help but wonder if the inclusion of Hurt in the film was just supposed to be a nod to the far superior dystopia tale 1984, that starred Hurt as the protagonist. No matter what the reason, I found Hurt's performance to be one of the high points of the film, and found myself waiting for the next scene that he would be included in. Some of the other performances were also decent, but were in no way memorable, which could be especially said about Portman's performance as Evie.

 In conclusion this film was pretty much an overdone romp through a hastily designed dystopian England, and though some of the concepts were cool, and the film was somewhat entertaining, I found this film totally mediocre and am very glad that I didn't have to pay to see it. I give V for Vendetta a 5 out of 10.