V for Vendetta

A bizarre, farcical, political allegory-cum-thriller.

In the face of this film something adolescent in me surged to the surface and I mean that as a great compliment: adolescence is a state I hold in high regard.

By leaping into fantasy and heading for its own version of a happy ending with all guns blazing, however, it blows the competition - not to mention the Houses of Parliament - out of the water.

Speaking of love, things go blooey instead of gooey whenever heroine and hero come close enough to touch; far from being sensual, let alone erotic, the movie proves to be not much fun at all.

This is just darkness played bright, a disposable object but hardly objectionable.

The dark and stylized V for Vendetta is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing.

Not only do I think it's a pretty prophetic cult film, but it's also fast-paced and highly entertaining narrating its dystopia about the anarchist vigilante wearing the Guy Fawkes mask to fight a totalitarian regime. [Full review in Spanish]

[Alan] Moore wrote the novel as a commentary on Thatcher's England and the film retains the London setting, but it only takes a few key phrases to echo the post-9/11 era and the rhetoric of the current American administration.

Beyond being interesting, the film is purposeful... [Full review in Spanish]

There is a good message hidden somewhere under the clunky and peremptory politics, but I lost my grasp of it halfway through.