Overrated

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Much has been said about the genius behind the script and ideas of V For Vendetta. They are all true and speak to the power of cinema when done with intelligence and purpose. I would like to note the amazing action, entertainment, realism and most of all the acting as well. When one compares the acting in V with films like Star Wars The Force Awakens or The Last Jedi or any of the silly Marvel films it becomes so evident that there are actors and there are actors in this world. A film can be replete with special effects yet the actors could be deeply stirring. The elite hate this film. The working class, the citizen, the human will love it.

C'mon. There's gotta be 2 versions of this film out there. Right? There's the dismal version that I saw. And then there's that other "Wow!" version that so many others have raved about.I mean, this film having 2 distinctly different versions is the only acceptable reason that I can think of to explain why there's such a divided opinion over this picture. Some people (like me) saw the crap version - While others enjoyed the thrill of viewing the dynamite version. What else could it be?Anyways - The minute that "V" boasted to Evey that his all-time fave flick was, in fact, "The Count of Monte Cristo", I knew that "V For Vendetta" was gonna suck, big time. (And, I was right) I guess that "V" loved this film with all of his heart 'cause its title character probably reminded him so much of his own deluded image of himself. Like, why else would someone love such a crap movie as "The Count of Monte Cristo"?I'd say that we (the audience) were all colossally cheated by the director/screenwriters of this disappointing film. For example - The fact that not even once were we ever given even a single glimpse of "V's" face is evidence of that. But, then again, maybe it was all just a cost-saving measure to try to save the producer a few bucks by cutting back on such things as expensive "burn-victim" make-up effects, or something like that.All in all - "V For Vendetta" was 132 minutes of excruciatingly long and dragged out garbage.

Welcome to the future. It's always miserable, and usually in these movies e.g. Children of Men there is a bleak ending. This is not quite the case here where the best thing on screen are the old clips from The Count of Monte Cristo with the wonderful Robert Donat . The right -on credentials of the movie conflate suppressed homosexuality and suppressed islam and the koran:all equivalent, virtual signalling like crazy. The fact that the two ideas are incompatible does not get a look in. So you know you are .watching a pointless cartoon of a movie (I used to love my cartoons as a kid, but i've grown up.)

I got this movie because I am a big sci fi fan. But I disappointed as soon as I saw the hero's vintage outfit with knives which reminded me of Mask Of Zorro. I stopped right there.