Part of Midnight Movies
Freedom! Forever! From the Wachowskis and Joel Silver, the masterminds behind THE MATRIX trilogy, comes another intriguing, action-packed fantasy-thriller. The premise: Great Britain has become a fascist state. Now, a shadowy freedom fighter known only as “V” (Hugo Weaving) begins a violent guerrilla campaign to destroy those who have embraced totalitarianism. In his quest to liberate England from its oppressive ideological chains, “V” recruits a young woman (Natalie Portman) he’s rescued from the secret police to join him on an epic adventure to execute a seemingly impossible task. Based on the DC Comics/Vertigo graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd.
“Just when we were ready to give up mainstream movies as braindead,along comes the controversial and gleefully subversive V FOR VENDETTA, a piece of corporate-sponsored art that will have audiences rooting for a bomb-throwing anarchist.” —Lou Lumenick, New York Post (Mar 16, 2006)
“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.” —Victoria Segal, New Statesman