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SkyMovies.com Tim Evans Alan Moore's graphic novel about a masked avenger hellbent on destroying a British totalitarian state of the future is searingly brought to the big screen. Hugo Weaving plays V, the masked revolutionary who embarks on a flamboyantly violent campaign to foment revolt. Movie rating: 4 star rating. ( Good )Rated by […]
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The Daily Telegraph By MICHAEL BODEYMarch 21, 2006 Australian avenger THE man with the Midas touch – Hugo Weaving's magic continues, with another lead role jumping to the top of the US box office. The subversive thriller V For Vendetta, in which Weaving stars as V, a masked avenger terrorising an authoritarian British government, earned […]
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The Sunday Mail LAWRIE MASTERSON19mar06 All for a good cause NATALIE Portman refuses to wear leather, fur or feathers, cosmetics tested on animals – or even diamonds because of the way they are mined. She also is a strict vegetarian. "It sounds like I'm politically correct almost to a point of parody but, at the […]
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The Australian March 29, 2006 Return of people power James McTeigue says his politically driven debut feature was primarily intended as a piece of entertainment. Sandy George reportsIN V for Vendetta, an anarchist in a smiling mask rails against a totalitarian British government. Through fair means and foul, including killing off the worst of those […]
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ThePress.co.nz 01 April 2006 Style and suspense V FOR VENDETTA (R13) Directed by James McTeigue ***½ Reviewed by Margaret Agnew. Inspired by Right-wing Thatcherite Britain and IRA attacks in the 1980s, V For Vendetta, with its plot involving bombing buildings and the London Underground, looks eerily prescient. Fans of The Matrix series will be excited […]
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Sunday News 26 March 2006By ELLEN DAVIES Portman's close shave V for Vendetta is already known as that movie where Natalie Portman loses her hair. The film – from the creators of the Matrix trilogy – required her to shave her head on camera for her role as Evey. Set in the future, Portman plays […]
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Deseret Morning News By Jeff ViceMarch, 17 2006 V FOR VENDETTA — *** 1/2 — Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea; rated R (violence, profanity, gore, drugs, vulgarity, torture, brief nudity). At the risk of pointing out the obvious, "V for Vendetta" is a revolutionary film, a movie project based on a comic-book series that […]
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E!Online March, 31 2006 Our Review: With a masked man using theatrics and terrorist tactics to make what is arguably a very good point, V For Vendetta is poised to be the most divisive and thought-provoking movie–or at least "big" movie–of the year. Thankfully, it's also the strongest, most exciting and most intelligent thrill ride […]
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About.com The Wachowski Brothers Make a Good Movie V For Vendetta doesn’t reinvent the cinematic wheel. It just tries to be a good movie, which is a good thing. People who try to top themselves usually end up trying too hard. It’s hardly the Wachowski Brothers’ best movie. That would be Bound. But V is […]
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Empire 27/03/2006 In a fictional, totalitarian Britain, an enigmatic, masked vigilante known only as “V” (Weaving) deploys terrorist acts to fight for freedom against the corrupt fascist state. When V rescues a young girl, Evey (Portman), the two form a mysterious bond, and she becomes a part of his violent revolution…RELEASED MARCH 30RATED MA15+STARRING Natalie Portman, […]
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