V

Opinions may vary on this. I don't know why i bother expressing mine on such a commercial venture. But I did not feel cheated by 'V'. I don't think it betrayed the graphic novel of Alan Moore - though his name was conspicuous by its absence from the end credits - from the graphic novel drawn by David Lloyd - was the line. No flashy CGI effects, and a look grounded in the Michael Radford '1984', and maybe the Richard Loncraine/ Ian McKellen take on 'Richard III' for its iconography - and some lovely little touches and nods to the Sex Pistols, who are rapidly emerging in this post historic period as the sharpest critics of post capitalism. And I mean that most sincerely (though by Sex Pistols, I really mean John Lydon). And John Hurt being fraught, Hugo Weaving faceless. And some red dominos. Well, I liked it. In its own fey way. Unless this is Politics for the Hot Topic generation?
A little footnote: the film was scheduled to open in the U.K. last November, but the release date was pushed back due to the real life 'terror' of the London tube bombings. Would that we lived in a world where the courage of convictions weighed more than the desire to make a buck.
But then again, I was born on the Fifth of November, so I would say that.