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This is a very timely movie, in my opinion. Set in a Phildickian world, where the United States government has fallen and England's government has turned to fascism, V for Vendetta is much more political in nature than most movies. However, don't let that scare you away from seeing this movie. In spite of (and because of) the politics, V for Vendetta still manages to entertain with amazing alliteration, excellent usage of the classical classic the 1812 overture, and some old fashioned British comedy, complete with gorillas and plenty of slipping on banana peels.

The story follows a terrorist who goes by the name V, whose goal is to fulfill Guy Fawkes' failed ambition to blow up the Parliament building on the 5th of November. Hoping to stir the souls of the people to resist their totalitarian government, he announces his plans to England one year in advance using the fascist government's TV station, which is piped into every home by law. In the midst of this, V saves a young woman named Evey from some corrupt government police who target her because she is out after the government mandated curfew. The rather interesting relationship between the always masked V and Evey plays a major role in the rest of the story arc.

Although the movie gets bogged down slightly in a couple of places due to some dialogue that is difficult to follow (although that may just be because I'm not British, and sometimes get distracted by the accent, or in Evey's [Natalie Portman] case, attempt at the accent), and a rather drawn out (in my opinion) tangent strongly supportive of homosexuality, the movie's story easily held my interest.

This is a timely film in a world where elected U.S. Senator Jim Bunning has stated "Civil liberties do not mean much when you are dead" and President Bush continues to allocate more and more unchecked power for the Presidency. Contrast this with founding father Patrick Henry's statement "Give me liberty or give me death." Even if you don't agree with such libertarian political ideas, I still encourage you to see the movie, if for no other reason than that this movie forces its audience to think which seems to be a rare thing indeed nowdays.

So who should see this movie? Anyone interested in the idea of liberty.
Who should not see this movie? Anyone who is easily offended, and cannot get past being offended.

Overall rank: Dominating

Some interesting V for Vendetta trivia:
This movie had, by far, the most uses of the word "bollocks" of any movie that I have seen.

Apparently, I need to take dancing lessons, because according to V, "A revolution without dancing, is a revolution not worth having!"