This movie seems to be grabbing people all different ways. Check out these three different bloggers' reactions:
The movie gets jacked full of religious hogwash that was not nearly so pronounced in the book. A character is executed for possessing a Koran, for example. We get a lot of fluff about biological weapons testing and what not. We get the ordinary citizens donning Guy Fawkes masks and marching on Parliament, which looks cool, in a way, but is preposterous and completely against the point of the book. We get a superfluous and not really all that interesting aside on Guy Fawkes himself at the beginning. That's about it.
That's Nick Milne at A Gentle Fuss. He has some nice things to say about the movie, but overall, he's spitting at it.
Then I find this at the Lew Rockwell blog:
My wife and I just got back from watching "V for Vendetta." WOW!! Not only is this the greatest anti-state movie I have ever seen - nothing else comes close in my mind - but one of the best films (regardless of content) I have seen. The acting is superb (especially that of the heroine); the production, script, and direction are marvelous. Even if this film had been about anti-vivisectionism it would be a great film.
A different blogger at LR said this:
I found the film's homosexual propaganda gratuitous (the idea that homosexual conduct is somehow threatened by the present political situation is preposterous -- indeed, one suspects sodomy will be one of the few rights left before the Supreme Court is done with us) but the rest is all so good I can hardly complain.
Of the three bloggers, I probably trust Milne the most. He has read the original author's books and his review is far more detailed. He's obviously given it a lot of thought, and I know Milne to be an honest and intelligent fellow (which isn't to say the LR fellas aren't, but I don't know much about them).
