Country: USA | UK | Germany
Language: Germany
Director: James McTeigue
I don't know why a film that has revenge as its theme fascinates me always. But most of them turn out to be mediocre.
V for Vendetta is not one of those films.
The entry of the principal character “V” is one of the most phenomenal. He is there to protect a damsel in distress but unlike other conventional heroes, he is very eloquent; and the knife-fighting cinematography is marvelous. But then, as the fight is over, unlike other such sequences he doesn’t disappear into the darkness but gives the viewers a curious mix of amazement and thrill with his music. In my opinion it is one of the most thrilling scenes of the film.
Then the film moves on with a lot more sequences that are brilliantly filmed and well directed. The best thing about this film is that it unfolds in a way that keeps you sort of surprised.
It is a very well directed work, indeed. Hugo Weaving suffers what any actor in this role would have suffered. People fall in love with “V” but they don’t know who is he and they don’t care. Well, to satisfy curiosities he is the famous Agent Smith of the Matrix trilogy.
Natalie Portman is also good in her part and for the first time I acknowledged that Stephen Rea can also be a good man.
The references to The Count of Monte Cristo seem just fitting and one of my favorite lines from the movie is Natalie Portman’s answer to Rea’s question “Who was He?” where she says “He was Edmond Dantes”.
The climax fight is also very well directed and the dialog “Ideas are bullet-proof” serves as the punch line.
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