Reviews: V for Vendetta (2005) Movie Review
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Our take on V for Vendetta (2005) explores its plot, scares, and horror highlights to help fans decide if it deserves a place on their watchlist.
V for Vendetta (2005) is a rated R 2h 12 min American action drama thriller film that was shot in several locations in London, England, UK and Germany. The movie had an estimated budget of $54 million and grossed over $132.5 million at the box office. Director James McTeigue (The Matrix (1999), The Raven (2012), Ninja Assassin (2009)) did a fantastic job executing his first movie as a director that was based on David Lloyd’s 1988 DC Comics titled, V for Vendetta. The film contains numerous graphics on gruesome screen deaths, bad language, drug use, frightening scenes, dystopia, terrorist, gunpowder plot, a masked vigilante, torture, oppression, vigilante, and totalitarian government.
V for Vendetta was set in an alternative future where a freedom fighter named V seeks action to save innocent, powerless people from wrongful doing by their government. V rescued Evey (Natalie Portman - Black Swan (2010), Leon: The Professional (1994)) who is a young teenage girl and she eventually falls in love with him but will his feelings for her interfere with his mission?
Hugo Weaving (The Matrix (1999), Captain America: The First Avenger (2011), Cloud Atlas (2012)) gave us an incredible performance as V whose face is behind his Guy Fawkes’ mask. V did not want to undergo the experiment by Norsefire that was performed on him. He is a skilled freedom fighter that is also charismatic. Natalie Portman also gave us an outstanding performance with her role as Evey. I did not think that she needed to have her head shaved for a specific scene where she was tortured because she did a remarkable job with her role with or without hair.
V for Vendetta has a mature theme with not as much violence as one might assume after watching the trailers but the violent scenes were done amazingly well. The action scenes should not be missed as they were spectacular, especially the knife scene towards the ending. The movie was visually stunning for the most of it although there was a ton load of blood that might not be suitable for the faint at heart audience.
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- V for Vendetta Rating Scores
- Our Score: 9/10
- Overall Score: 7.83/10
- IMDB: 8.1/10
- MetaCritic: 6.2/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 7.3/10
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