V for Vendetta (Blu-ray) R
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 12 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 20, 2008
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, Hugo Weaving & John Hurt | |
Performer: | Rupert Graves, Sinéad Cusack, Stephen Fry, Natasha Wightman & Tim Pigott-Smith | |
Directed by | James McTeigue | |
Edited by | Martin Walsh | |
Screenwriting by | Lilly Wachowski & Lana Wachowski | |
Composition by | Dario Marianelli | |
Produced by | Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Joel Silver & Grant Hill | |
Director of Photography: | Adrian Biddle |
Entertainment Reviews:
4 stars out of 4 -- [A] compelling, rousing and at times strangely moving entertainment.
Premiere
3.5 stars out of 4 -- The explosive V FOR VENDETTA is powered by ideas that are not computer-generated. It's something rare in Teflon Hollywood: a movie that sticks with you.
Rolling Stone
Rating: C+ --
V for Vendetta, based on a graphic novel, is sabotaged by its second half, which is more like V for vacuous. By the end, it's 1984 meets The Phantom of the Opera.
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Good Morning America
5 stars out of 5 -- A bravura action romp with all the flair you might expect from a film produced by Matrix creators the Wachowski brothers....Excellent.
Ultimate DVD
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The dark and stylized V for Vendetta is visually exhilarating, provocative and disturbing.
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USA Today
Rating: 2.5/4 --
With such a revolutionary attitude, big themes and incendiary topics, it's amazing how bland the final product of the film can be.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
In the face of this film something adolescent in me surged to the surface and I mean that as a great compliment: adolescence is a state I hold in high regard.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Product Description:
V FOR VENDETTA: From DC comics and the Wachowski Brothers (THE MATRIX) comes this tale of revolution in an England of the future, one gone fearful and fascist; anyone different, from homosexuals to free thinking artists, is "black bagged" and subjected to torture and inhumane medical experiments. Hugo Weaving stars as V, the mysterious knife-carrying masked avenger who has lightning reflexes, lots of explosives, and intentions to blow up Parliament. He's also on a vendetta against the evil powermongers who made him the lonely monster he is. Natalie Portman is the innocent waif who saves him and winds up hiding out in his nifty secret lair, which is filled with forbidden books, art, and a jukebox that plays Cat Power and Julie London's "Cry Me a River." Meanwhile, there's a hangdog police inspector (Stephen Rea) picking up their trail, and a plethora of evil British government types regularly bullied into action by the intensely odious "Grand Chancellor" (John Hurt). Director James McTiegue keeps all these events unfolding at a hypnotically rhythmic pace, like the burning of a long, unstoppable fuse. Some may balk at the film's seemingly pro-explosive, pro-terrorist stance, but to look deeper is to realize the film merely provides a funhouse mirror of our actual messed-up world, something that is true of all the best science fiction. V certainly fits that category, especially with Natalie Portman in the lead, as lovely and riveting an actress as a beleaguered nation could ever hope for.