"This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
And that is how one of the best movies I have seen this year starts off. V for Vendetta ... a movie adaptation of Alan Moore's (League Of Extraordinary Gentleman, Swamp Things ) comic book/graphic novel. I haven't read the comic book so I can't and won't comment on the quality of the movie as compared to the comic. What I can tell you is that it was a GREAT movie. Really gets you thinking ....
The acting is good . Really good . Hugo Weaving does a very good job conveying his character even through he is fully masked throughout the movie. What most actors can't manage in a whole movie (think Annakin Skywalker/Hayden Christensen in Star Wars II and III) what this guy manages to do everytime his character is on screen .. every tiny nuances, move of the head, the way the shoulders droops goes to show you the emotions of the character.
The movie also has a lot of style ...
Evey: Who are you?
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of "what", and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
Evey: Oh... right.
The character is really really cool !
When the character is surrounded alone with a bunch of badguys all aiming their guns at him he goes ...
Bad Guy: All you have is your knives and your fancy karate gimmicks. We have guns.
V: No, what you have is bullets and the hope that when your gun runs out of them I won't be standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you have a chance to reload.
Now that is what I call attitude, I am sick of the usual Hollywood big-trash-talk hero. Move out Sarge from Doom , run along Rambo, shoo away The Rock ...
..... cause V is here .
Go watch it ...
-Warlock |
