31 Mar 2006
Movies

P For Pile of Crap

I went to watch “V For Vendetta” and thought it was utter rubbish.

The Wachowski brothers wrote the script for V For Vendetta

Ah, the Wachowski brothers, of Matrix fame – their heart is in the right place, but it is buried in a pile of saccharine and phoniness, plus the urge to be cool. They took a classic comic novel by Alan Moore, written in the darkest days of Thatcher’s reign, and transposed it to a War On Terror setting. The original anarchist ethos is replaced by Twin Tower conspiracies theories, in an attempts to make it relevant to the 21st century, but the pace is wrong, the dialogues are bad, and the movie is 1 hour too long. Others seem to agree that the screenplay for V For Vendetta is weak.

V For Vendetta, a well researched and slick production

On the plus side, the production crew obviously did their homework on London, and casted some British actors – but still, somehow it is just too shiny and too Hollywood, too simplified. Even the special effects are nothing to blow your mind. Explosions look like firework displays, and I’m sure I have seen those zoomed in falling raindrops in a shampoo adverts before. The only eye candy I enjoyed was the flying knives at the very end.

Not a classic.