V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)
by James McTeigue
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Actor: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Fry, Stephen ReaDirector: James McTeigue
Brand: Warner Brothers
Producer: Andy Wachowski
Writer: Andy Wachowski
Producer: Ben Waisbren
Producer: Charlie Woebcken
Producer: Grant Hill
Writer: David Lloyd
Writer: Larry Wachowski
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man (Hugo Weaving) known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise
DVD Reviews of V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)
DVD Review: VENDETTA
Summary: 4 Stars
A very apt movie for the current times.An upgrade on 1984 that presents the important message with pieces of warm emotion ie love and music !DVD Review: Provocative and unconventional
Summary: 5 Stars
V for Vendetta is a visually striking, politically challenging, memorable film. Natalie Portman plays Evey, a very vulnerable "everywoman" who gets caught up in forces she doesn't understand or appreciate. Portman is in almost every scene, and for much of the film is the only character you can truly see (there either are no other characters, or other characters are masked). For those who only remember her as Padme in the Star Wars films, she has a chance to show a much broader range of abilities, and is impressive.
The plot draws heavily on contemporary themes, including uneasiness over Britain's very highly developed video surveillance system as well as the US Patriot Act limitations on civil rights. Add in some not-so-veiled references to Guy Fawkes, and movie trailers that gave away much of the action, and you have a film in which you know how it turns out (you think), but are constantly wondering how it will get there. The visual images, the political issues, and the unease stay with you long after the film is finished.
DVD Review: Excelent movie, blu-ray mid-quality
Summary: 4 Stars
I just got this movie a couple days ago, watched it during the weekend... I had forgotten how much I liked this movie. If you like conspiracy theories complemented with good action and a touch of "super hero", this is a great movie for you. The dialogs are superb and the actors really stand up to their characters.
If you have read the original graphic novel, you will find some differences in the movie, I guess this is expected as with all recent movie adaptations, but just be aware of that and do not hate the movie for it.
Blu-ray definitely has better exponents of its image capabilities, but this one does not let you down, just do not expect something like you see in Batman The Dark Knight, it is more like Batman Begins in Blu-ray.
Sound wise I cannot tell much, as my sound system is not that great, but I can tell that all dialogs, knife throwing/stabbing and explosions sounded very good, at least for me.
All in all, I had a great experience with this movie, I expect to watch this again very soon.
DVD Review: Black and white attack on Bush
Summary: 1 Stars
The original Graphic novel this was based on is one of the smartest and best stories written last century. It's ig iea stuff examining the extremes of government and policies. It has no 2D characters but instead flushes out and makes you understand even if you don't like) all of them. It's timeless and never needs to be "updated" because it's about ideas that are still there today and were there long before the book was written.
This film claims to be an update on said story. But aparently update means they must skew a balanced look at polotics as a concept into an onslaught on the bush campaign. On top of that they took all these full developed characters and turned them into the very black and white nazi liek characters Alan Moore intentionally didn't write in the book.
This is a terrible movie that degrades everything the book stands for.
DVD Review: Alan Moore was probably right
Summary: 3 Stars
For a lot of people, tell them a film is based on a graphic novel -- a "comic book" -- and they immediately write it off as juvenile. Some of us know better, though. The fact that the story a movie came from appeared first in another graphic medium has very little to do with anything. You have to evaluate the film on its own merits. This one is a combination of adventure fantasy -- bigger-than-life hero vs. superbad villains -- and political cautionary tale. It's a couple of decades in the future, the U.S. has collapsed economically and politically and is mired in civil war, and England has fallen into an authoritarian, fascist nightmare, largely with the acquiescence of its own people. Into all this steps a man in a Guy Fawkes mask with a vendetta against those in power for what they did to him in his earlier life. In the book, V's cause is anarchy; in the film, it's English freedom. (Alan Moore loathed the change in theme as "Americanization," but revolution plays better in Hollywood if it's in support of democracy.) Though we never see the real, damaged face of V, the voice behind the mask is that of Hugo Weaving -- and a great voice it is, too. Natalie Portman plays Evey, the only survivor of a family that was wiped out piecemeal by the fascists, and the story also is about her climb up from constant fear. John Hurt is excellent as Sutler, the frothingly menacing Head Chancellor who glares out from an oversize TV screen like Big Brother in "1984." There are plenty of plot holes, mostly having to do with the ease with which V gets in and out of very high-security places to commit his executions. On the other hand, the Wachowski brothers also were responsible for the "Matrix" films, so you know the sfx are going to be above average -- especially the final shoot-out in the tube station and the destruction of the Houses of Parliament as witnessed by thousands of Londoners in Guy Fawkes masks. Not a bad flick, and it's obviously destined to be a cult film, but it would have been interesting to see what the Wachowskis could have done by sticking closer to the themes and details of the book.
Description of V for Vendetta (Widescreen Edition)
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man (Hugo Weaving) known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. 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 plan to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption."Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in 1984: after years of various wars, England is now under "big brother" Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the movie 1984), whose party uses force and fear to run the nation. After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605, V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the masses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively. At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from a group of police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. It is through their relationship where we learn how V became V, the extremities of the party's corruption, the problems of an oppressive government, V's revenge plot, and his philosophy on how to induce change.
Based on the popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta's screenplay was written by the Wachowski brothers (of The Matrix fame) and directed by their prot?g?, James McTeigue. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U.S. political arena, to graphic novel fans complaining about the reconstruction of Alan Moore's original vision (Moore himself has dismissed the film). Many are valid critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of their state of indifference in order to bring about real change. Unfortunately, the movie only offers a means with no ends, and those looking for answers may find the film stylish, but a bit empty. --Rob Bracco
Beyond Vendetta
 The graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd |  More by Alan Moore |  From Graphic Novel to Big Screen |
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