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V for Vendetta (2006)
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Movie Review by AJ 
April 14th, 2006
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I'm a huge comic book fan, and yet I've never read Alan Moore's V for Vendetta. But I know full well that Moore is a genius, and I recognize his trademarks...especially due to my obsession with Watchmen and my love for his ongoing series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the film version of which was horrid). Thus, I can recognize all of Moore's dense plotting, detailed environs, political combat, and character shading...and I can also recognize all of it getting far too simplified. Director McTeigue, who served as first assistant director on the Matrix trilogy, and who made the film with a screenplay by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski, should not be the one calling the shots. He can not control the camera well. At all. Much of the film is rather overblown, silly, and needlessly flashy. The last ten minutes are brilliant...the rest really isn't. But Hugo Weaving is cool (isn't he always?).
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