On DVD: V for Vendetta

I saw this a while ago, but this will be a week of reviews, so it's a perfect time to get this one done.

When this came out it looked interesting on several levels. A mysterious masked man was fighting a brutal regime on his own. And Natalie Portman was in it. What more can you ask for?

The man behind the mask is Hugo Weaving, better known as Elrond from LOTR and Agent Smith from the Matrix movies. He's incredible in this movie. He emotes without EVER showing his face. He's the man ruined by his government, left for dead, coming back from the ashes like a Phoenix for revenge. Natalie Portman is befriended by the enemy of the state to lash out as well for what happened to her parents in her youth.

It's a movie that keeps moving, keeping your interest. It's good, weird at times, but very watchable. It's worth watching, and not the disappointment the comic-book fan-boys said it was.

More on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/