V for Vendetta is a film made by Americans about London. I mean, I can see how it's all right, given it's a big budget nonsense blockbuster, but there's something so incredibly lame in the last scene of the film--I'm going to ruin it for you--the dead people, those murdered by the evil British state, are all united with the living people as the events of the film lead them into some glorious new future. Or some nonsense.
It's obvious and lame. The scene could have been shot so it wouldn't have been noticeable, possibly even have been subtle... instead, it's like the end of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang but without the joke.
There's a lot of okay stuff about the film. Natalie Portman isn't terrible. She isn't any good, but she isn't terrible. Rose Byrne would have done a great job (a rewrite would have helped too). Stephen Rea and Stephen Fry are both fantastic. John Hurt is fine. Rupert Graves is good. I'm not sure why Hugo Weaving got the part of the titular character, since it'd have been a stuntman for most of it and there's a mask and no performance, but whatever. His voice acting is clearly dubbed in, regardless of whether he had to wear a stifling outfit.
The script's got some awful moments--as a police procedural starring Rea in the lead, it would have been great. McTeigue's occasionally okay. The visual style is all flash, no substance.
It's really quite bad.
CREDITS
Directed by James McTeigue; written by Andy and Larry Wachowski, based on the comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd; director of photography, Adrian Biddle; edited by Martin Walsh; music by Dario Marianelli; production designer, Owen Paterson; produced by Joel Silver, Grant Hill and Andy and Larry Wachowski; released by Warner Bros.
Starring Natalie Portman (Evey), Hugo Weaving (V), Stephen Rea (Inspector Finch), Stephen Fry (Deitrich), John Hurt (Adam Sutler), Tim Pigott-Smith (Creedy), Rupert Graves (Dominic), Roger Allam (Lewis Prothero), Ben Miles (Dascomb), Sinéad Cusack (Delia Surridge), Natasha Wightman (Valerie), John Standing (Lilliman) and Eddie Marsan (Etheridge).
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