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I was really looking forward to this one… the awesome posters, bald Natalie, Hugo Weaving and the first post-Matrix film from the Brothers Wachowski. I wanted to see it badly enough that I went the day after it opened to a crappy theatre and saw it with a bunch of annoying teenagers (and most of them were probably from Scarborough). V for Vendetta (James McTeigue), however, was a confused, dialogue-heavy and ultimately boring letdown of a film.

There were a lot of cool parts, though, such as… um… yeah, the (two really short) actions scenes; and future London looked amazing, too. I greatly enjoyed Stephen Rea as well as the small part that Stephen Fry had. Hugo Weaving was cool, I guess, but it could have been anyone underneath that mask. Portman was adequate but she’ll always be Padme Amidala to me (and this is not a good thing).

The movie was long, wordy and anti-climatic. I don’t regret seeing it, but it certainly didn’t pay off in regards to the anticipation. It wasn’t very original in terms of the whole “dystopia” thing, but I do think that a lot the film’s these are currently relevant. Still, V for Vendetta couldn’t decide whether it was The Phantom of the Opera or 1984. There were some really lame lines and the whole lesbian requiem seemed a bit trendy.

I don’t know how much of Alan Moore’s graphic novel truly inspired the film, but he has reportedly requested his name to be associated with it after this and this happened. I do think it was a good idea to delay the film’s release – after the London bombings, it was delayed about six months to its March release.