The story idea looks great on paper. A super-hero who has trouble keeping a boyfriend because she's emotionally wacko. It seems like there's so much you can do with that idea. However, the potential was never realized. The funniest gag was where...
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The story idea looks great on paper. A super-hero who has trouble keeping a boyfriend because she's emotionally wacko. It seems like there's so much you can do with that idea. However, the potential was never realized. The funniest gag was where she throws a shark through a window at a guy. But we already saw that in the trailer. Every other super-powered fit of rage was rather mundane in comparison. She punches car windows, throws stuff really hard, and other normal everyday stuff. Just with super-strength which results in slightly more destruction but not enough to really be funny. The underlying relationship story was rather thin so the movie really needed great gags to carry it. Unfortunately, they just weren't there.

The basic premise has been done before. A futuristic totalitarian government rules its people with iron fist in the name of security and continued prosperity. Then along comes a rebel who manages to rally the people to his cause and give the evil...
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The basic premise has been done before. A futuristic totalitarian government rules its people with iron fist in the name of security and continued prosperity. Then along comes a rebel who manages to rally the people to his cause and give the evil ruler s plenty of problems.

That premise can easily make for a cheesy movie -- thinking Aeon Flux -- but in this case it was really well done. The performance of the guy in the mask, named V, is what really made this movie. Here is a character who expresses absolutely zero emotion with his face (because it's a mask) yet by the end the story you feel for him and his sadness at what had become of the world. Of course we get a lot of that through the performance of Natalie Portman also who acts as sort of a pupil to V.

It's not so much of an action movie as it is a suspenseful drama. Through the investigation of the chief inspector we slowly learn about V's past and how the current government came to be. There's a certain amount of political commentary along the way which isn't at all out of place. One of the reasons why this genre exists is to make observations of our current political conditions by envisioning a worst-case outcome at some point in the not-too-distant future.

Being produced by the Wachowski brothers we get a few pretty cool -- and sometimes slow motion -- fight scenes. The last of which includes some pretty cool knife effects. The running time is just over 2 hours which is just about the right amount of time for V for Vendetta to tell its story.

I really enjoyed this one. I've always been somewhat a fan of Albert Brook's particular brand of humor and this movie didn't disappoint. It kept me interested the whole way through. It didn't try to get preachy or have any kind of meaningful...
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I really enjoyed this one. I've always been somewhat a fan of Albert Brook's particular brand of humor and this movie didn't disappoint. It kept me interested the whole way through. It didn't try to get preachy or have any kind of meaningful message which in this case I consider a good thing. The horrible stand-up routine was hilarous in that "it's funny because it's so unfunny" way. I highly recommend this one.

The only reason this movie even gets a full star is for Jack Black's improvised singing scene. Other than that there was nothing funny or entertaining about this movie.