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I bought the V for Vendetta graphic novel in the ATL airport on my back to the CLT (where I immediately went to see this movie, between the airport and home) and was worried for the entire trip that someone was going to snap a rubber glove and call me over behind some dark curtain due to my choice of reading material. What was I thinking? Nobody knows what I was reading, they would have had to read it themselves first to know how “dangerous” the ideas inside were. No chance of that.
I haven’t reached the halfway point of the book yet, so when I say that the movie seems to have captured the idea well enough to keep me from being pissed off (even though some HUGE changes are immediately noticable), you will have to bear in mind that I only halfway know what I’m talking about.
Here is what I do know:
This movie has been dumbed down a bit and, times being what they are, it has been made more relevant.
This movie is much better than the last 2/3 of the Matrix triology. But not as good as The Matrix.
Natalie Portman somehow looks better in this movie than ever before. I did not think that was possible.
The movie drained me, it was almost like work keeping up with the whirlwind trying to disrail the steam engine of a plot. So many ideas to burn into your psyche, so little time.
This is a “go see now at the theatre” movie, unless you have a home theatre like my roomy.