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	V For Vendetta : film review
		As Evey uncovers the truth about V's past, she emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plan to ignite a revolution, bringing freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.
		V For Vendetta, the latest adaptation of Moore’s work to hit the screen, is more of a success than the aforementioned duo, but not by much.
		V For Vendetta is a project that has been gestating in Hollywood for quite some time, but its arrival in the era of the "War On Terror" couldn’t be more timely.
	www.musicomh.com /films2/v-for-vendetta_0306.htm (735 words)

	Terror vision - Film - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		Natalie Portman as Evey in V for Vendetta.
		V for Vendetta is set in Britain some time in the near future.
		V makes frequent swoops on his various oppressors, dispatching them neatly with an arsenal of knives hidden beneath his cloak.
	www.smh.com.au /news/film/terror-vision/2006/03/22/1142703449378.html (992 words)

	V For Vendetta film review
		V For Vendetta is way too heavy handed in its political doctrines to effectively make its point.
		V finds an ally for his cause in the elfin figure of Evey (Natalie Portman) who he rescues from impending rape at the hands of a group of Fingermen, a quasi-police unit used to impose the curfew.
		V establishes his intentions by first blowing up the Old Bailey and then hijacking the national television network to urge the public to unite with him on his treasonous cause against their government.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/v_for_vendetta.html (650 words)

	V For Vendetta movie review, In Film Australia
		In V for Vendetta that logic is supposed to be taken at face value: the thought of an idea actually being the body behind the mask is a crucial part of this character.
		The frothy world of V is based slightly in the future, where England is possessed by a 1984-esque regime, its citizens having long traded their individual freedoms for medical treatments and the comforts of solidarity.
		Sadly V for Vendetta seems cautiously unwilling to grope with this kind of logic and shirks any serious discussion of vigilante justice in favour of handsomely zooming in on the carnage it ensures.
	www.infilm.com.au /reviews/vforvendetta.htm (1120 words)

	village voice > film > V for Vendetta by J. Hoberman
		V for Vendetta, which opens March 16, is nothing if not topical in its fantasies.
		Supremely tasteless, V for Vendetta, with the mysterious V (Hugo Weaving) haunting London in an insouciantly smiling Guy Fawkes mask, was scheduled to have its premiere last November on the day of the Plot's 400th anniversary.
		V's full-face disguise recalls the ski masks of the Italian Red Brigades; his slashing trademark is a recognizable permutation on the anarchist "A." This empty signifier argues for terror as a semiotician might—an attack on symbols—and he paraphrases Emma Goldman on the revolutionary importance of dancing.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/0611,hoberman,72526,20.html (1150 words)

	V for Vendetta (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		V for Vendetta is the final film shot by cinematographer Adrian Biddle, who died of a heart attack on December 7, 2005.
		The film was originally scheduled for release on the weekend of November 5, 2005, the 400th anniversary of the Plot, with the tag line "Remember, remember the 5th of November", taken from a traditional British rhyme memorializing the event.
		V For Vendetta was released on DVD on August 1, 2006 in three formats: a single-disc wide-screen version, a single-disc full-screen version, and a two-disc wide-screen special edition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film) (7656 words)

	Locus Online: Claude Lalumière reviews V for Vendetta
		Much of V for Vendetta's strength comes from the details: the wry pop-culture references, the moments of resigned desperation, the flashes of unabashed romanticism, the images that remind us that the potential for fascism is still with us, much closer to home than we should be comfortable with.
		V for Vendetta is a powerfully effective and affecting film.
		Near the end of both the comics and the film, in what is perhaps a nod to the conclusion of Patrick McGoohan's allegorical TV series The Prisoner, there comes a surreal and symbolic event in which delusion invades reality, although film and comics diverge on the both the moment shown and the symbolism chosen.
	www.locusmag.com /2006/Features/Lalumiere_Vendetta.html (833 words)

	V for Vendetta (2006): Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry - PopMatters Film Review
		V first appears in a dark alley, where he saves Evey (Natalie Portman) from being raped by a brace of grubby cops.
		But when she resists V's initial nice-guy indoctrination (he makes her tea and eggs for breakfast), she is subjected to more drastic methods: she's locked up, interrogated, and tortured for some unknown time, living in a cell with rats and reading the written-on-toilet-paper story of a radiant-in-flashbacks lesbian prisoner, now dead and much romanticized.
		The film never lets a metaphor speak for itself ("If you're looking for the guilty," asserts V, "You need only look into the mirror") or lets you forget an image, as when a scene showing V's youthful abuse is replayed several times, to ensure the connection between his experience and Evey's.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/v/v-for-vendetta.shtml (941 words)

	Amazon.com: V for Vendetta: Movie Showtimes: James McTeigue,Natalie Portman,Hugo Weaving,Stephen Rea,Stephen Fry,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		V for Vendetta starts off with abit of a prologue to explain the relevance of the Guy Fawkes mask worn by V throughout the film and the significance of the date of the 5th of November.
		V for Vendetta more than continues the current crop of seriously done comic book fillm adaptations (Batman Begins, X2, Sin City, and A History of Violence) but it also shows that Alan Moore's work can be adapted well to the screen when given to the right people.
		V happens upon young Evey (Natalie Portman) who unwillingly becomes his prodigy, but when a close friend is murdered at the hands of the government she becomes a little more willing to help make a statement.
	www.amazon.com /V-for-Vendetta/dp/B00005JOE8 (4821 words)

	V for Vendetta Film Review \| Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The comic, also titled “V for Vendetta”, was created by celebrated comic book writer Alan Moore in the 1980s.
		The review covers the political inspiration for the film and comic, Guy Fawkes and the 1605 “Gun Powder Plot”, the films portrayal of anarchism and anarchist influence, sci-fi fantasy and film as a medium for social commentary, the use of violence as a tool for social change and classical anarchist strategy for revolution.
		V appears to be some sort of conscience who try to awaken people brain numbed by this propaganda.
	blogs.zmag.org /node/2572 (410 words)

	Montreal Film Journal
		"V for Vendetta" was written by Andy and Larry Wachowski and directed by James McTeigue, who previously collaborated with the brothers on the Matrix flicks.
		The film also puts more emphasis on the thematic ties with "1984" (the Leader is made almost literally into Big Brother, ranting down from giant screens), "Le Comte de Monte-Cristo" (the ultimate revenge story) and Batman (with the idea that a symbol, a mask, is more powerful than a man).
		I've mostly written about the thoughts "V for Vendetta" provokes, but as literary and complex as it is, it also packs more visceral thrills, notably one of the most brutal and visually stunning action scenes I've ever seen - think of an insane cross between the climactic swordfight in "Yojimbo" and The Matrix's bullet-time.
	www.montrealfilmjournal.com /review.asp?R=R0001004 (603 words)

	AfterEllen.com - V for Vendetta: A Brave, Bold Film for Gays and Lesbians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		V, played by Hugo Weaving, is a masked revolutionary driven by a mysterious past to try to bring down this corrupt government.
		Like V, he is a man living behind a mask, a man who despises those in power, but who, in exchange for wealth and security, helps to keep his audience docile with mindless entertainment.
		Indeed, this is where Vendetta becomes truly extraordinary as we learn it is Valerie's story—more specifically, her unwavering love for a woman named Ruth (Mary Stockley)—that inspires his vendetta.
	www.afterellen.com /Movies/2006/3/vendetta.html (614 words)

	V for Vendetta (2005) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Trivia: The Houses of Parliament destroyed in the film are not the same buildings which Guy Fawkes planned to destroy in 1605.
		The film shows Guy Fawkes struggling to breath while hanging from the rope during his execution.
		But it is slowly revealed to the audience that V for Vendetta is not just an action movie.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0434409/maindetails (459 words)

	V for Vendetta Review - FilmFocus.Co.UK
		While V may open the film with a fireworks display at the Old Bailey, though, he's not the terrorist of this story, and claims that V for Vendetta glorifies terrorism are clearly missing that point.
		V for Vendetta is visually stunning, marvellously rich and possibly the first great Alan Moore adaptation.
		I think this film can only be enjoyed if you see it for what it is, a jolly good romp, but it is true it fell far short of the graphic novel however as fan of anti-heroes i have to say with a slight tinge of embarrassment that i did enjoy it.
	www.filmfocus.co.uk /review.asp?ReviewID=20636 (897 words)

	V for Vendetta reviewed on the official website of writer, Laura Hird
		Britain is under the jackboot of the High Chancellor (John Hurt, in a somewhat cartoonish perpetually ranting performance), a fascistic slug whose evil government controls the populace through intimidation (fear of incarceration or of terrorism or of being ‘different’ and suffering the consequences) and spin-doctors and curfews and spies and totalitarian terror in general.
		As I said, ‘V’ depressingly reflects some of what is going on in the world right now, where a throwaway scene from a popular television program with a maniacally laughing turban-wearing Arab menacing a screaming tied-up white woman with dynamite can speak volumes about popular culture and current culture-clash and mind-control mindsets.
		We never truly find out 100% about how V came to be who he is and how he came to finance some of the things he buys in the film, like thousands of replicas of his mask (wherever they came from) that are used at a pivotal moment of the climax.
	www.laurahird.com /filmreviews/vforvendetta.html (1282 words)

	V For Vendetta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the end V for Vendetta is as cold and unsympathetic as the regime it criticizes.
		V For Vendetta is massive popcorn entertainment, a blockbusterish undertaking with a great cast and even a few ideas (!) wedged into the exhilarating action sequences.
		V for Vendetta is not a movie of ideas so much as it is an idea mall.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/v_for_vendetta (938 words)

	'V for Vendetta' set visit - The TOMB movie news - Time Out Film
		Based on the hugely popular graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, the film is set in a totalitarian Britain of the near future, and the 'V' of the title is a charismatic freedom fighter who uses terror to trigger mass revolution.
		Filming such large-scale action has been a revelation of sorts for McTeigue, who cut his teeth as assistant director on 'The Matrix' trilogy and the last two 'Star Wars' films.
		Nevertheless, it's fair to say that passers-by were shocked and stunned by the sheer scale of it all, and if the cast and crew can capture even an ounce of that awe on film, they are sure to have a hit on their hands when 'V for Vendetta' hits screens on March 17 next year.
	www.timeout.com /film/news/467.html (894 words)

	V for Vendetta
		It's a polarizing film, and I confess that I'm too far to one side politically by now to see it in anything other than a ideologically gratifying light, but as a film it's also well-made: slick, exhilarating and outrageous.
		Still, it's useful to remember that today, V for Vendetta feels like a slap in the face and a kick in the shorts; damnit if, when the Old Bailey loses its head, I didn't feel a little like whooping with that pleasure of destructive juvenile resistance.
		Already scourged in some corners as an apologia for terrorism, V for Vendetta is instead a cautionary tale about how monolithic governments create revolutionaries from ordinary people when they intimately violate them.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/vforvendetta.htm (753 words)

	'V for Vendetta' by Butler Shaffer
		It is for this reason that I awaited, with skeptical enthusiasm, the opening of V for Vendetta.
		While V for Vendetta contains a great deal of violence, “V” reminds us, early on, of the social application of Newton’s Third Law of Motion: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
		Perhaps a film such a V for Vendetta will provide us an opportunity to begin exploring the orderly nature of anarchistic systems.
	www.lewrockwell.com /shaffer/shaffer132.html (1053 words)

	IGN: V for Vendetta: Comic vs. Film
		The film follows the spirit of the '80s miniseries, but adds its own plot elements that make for some significant changes in the final third of the story.
		The film alters the plot and involves the public, inspiring a nation towards possible revolution.
		The film's leader, played by John Hurt, is an amalgamation of various dictators and appears almost exclusively on a giant screen.
	comics.ign.com /articles/696/696867p1.html (785 words)

	V for Vendetta - Film Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Set in the not-too-distant future, the film unfolds in a rather shadowy England beset by a totalitarian repression of Orwellian dimensions.
		But when V saves her from a brutal beating at the hands of the thought police, Evey gets her start on the road to recovery.
		Furthermore, since V for Vendetta transparently expects the audience to root for a protagonist with an anti-establishment message on a variety of today’s hot-button issues, be prepared to check your politics at the door, at least if you tend to lean to the right of center.
	www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/article_2591.shtml (778 words)

	.::ON-FILM.NET -- DVD REVIEW: "V FOR VENDETTA" By Bill Ramey::.
		If you are not familiar with the story, the film is based on the graphic novel V FOR VENDETTA by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
		When V saves a young girl named Evey (played in the film by Natalie Portman), he takes her under his wing and she eventually becomes his ally.
		Also, but not a surprise, there’s no Alan Moore or the Wachowskis; but David Lloyd is on hand and declares the film as “a very good version.” In fact, Moore was so upset upon reading the script, that he had his name removed from the credits and gave his royalties to Lloyd.
	www.on-film.net /dvdreviews/vforvendetta_jett_2006.html (365 words)

	.::BATMAN ON FILM -- FILM REVIEW: "V FOR VENDETTA" By Bill Ramey::.
		I saw this film twice: once in San Francisco during Wondercon (as mentioned previously) and a second time at press screening in Houston, Texas.
		Like the comic boook, the film is set in a near-future London that has been taken over by a fascist dictatorship.
		Yes, this film is about a fictional fascist state (even though it is set in a future London), but it blatantly attempts to draw a correlation to certain (ahem) go
	www.batman-on-film.com /review_jett_vforvendetta.html (779 words)

	LatinoReview.com - The Latin Perspective On All Films! - Film/Movie Previews - V For Vendetta
		As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself -- and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plot to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.
		Based on the acclaimed graphic novel "V For Vendetta" by Alan Moore ("The Watchmen," "From Hell") and illustrator David Lloyd.
		Copyrights and trademarks for the film and related entertainment properties mentioned herein are held by their respective owners and are used with permission or solely for the promotional purposes of said properties.
	latinoreview.com /filmpreview.php?id=55 (138 words)

	V For Vendetta (2006) - Channel 4 Film review
		Alan Moore started writing 'V For Vendetta' in the summer of 1981 during a holiday on the Isle Of Wight.
		It was the artist's idea to throw Guy Fawkes into the mix, suggesting the Catholic plotter should be celebrated for attempting to blow up the Houses Of Parliament.
		After rescuing Evey (Natalie Portman) from some nastiness involving a gang of Fingermen - the SS of this future state, with grimy macs instead of Nazi regalia - V takes her into his secret lair, a shadow gallery, where he keeps all the culture forbidden by the far right government led by Adam Sutler (Hurt).
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=147176 (311 words)

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