V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta

What an interesting movie.

This movie tells the story of V, a man who has been made into what he is by the state and has been planning ultimately to get back at the man that did this to him.  

This story is based on an illustrated novel of the same name written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd.  It’s set in the United Kingdom in a rather bleak future.  The story itself pays homage to 1984 by George Orwell in which the people are monitored by and are afraid of their government.

I really enjoyed the adaptation the Wachowski Brothers skillfully put together.  Now, you would think that this would be an action movie, but it really isn’t.  It’s all about the story politics, betrayal and love.  Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman really are fantastic.

On the venerated and now rarely-used corn-cob scale, where 1 cob means you really should avoid this as it’ll make you sick, and 5 means the cobs are so good that they give you superpowers, I would have to give it a 4.5.  It even won over my girlfriend who really didn’t have much of an opinion when she started watching it, but told me she wanted to buy the movie when we finished watching.

El Presidente