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Michael considered fate at 13:24   |   Permalink   |   Post a Comment

I've never been a big comic book guy or, alternatively, a graphic novel guy, but I did borrow my cousin's copy of V for Vendetta by Alan Moore years and years ago when I was visiting him and couldn't find anything to read. I ended up really enjoying it a whole lot and so it's no surprise, really, that someone else (The Wachowski Brother's) enjoyed it too - enough to make it into a movie. Of course the proliferation of comic content as action movie fodder probably has a lot more to do with it. Anyhow, Hugo Weaving (Agent Smith from the Matrix movies) is the main character V and Natalie Portman plays the other main character, a young woman saved by V from a late night alleyway situation. I don't want to ruin anything so I'll keep it simple. Suffice it to say that V could stand for Vigilante and the movie has a strong revenge plot, only the people V is getting retribution from are the same people that happen to be running the totalitarian government.

Trailer here.