Anne Wyckoff – Google

A movie for ideologues, it was supposedly making a political statement about the Bush presidency. So naturally, the grand villain in the movie is an evil fascist government using religion to manipulate the masses (in 2020 England). Bush is Hitler. Sure fascism is evil, but the fear of it is done to death. Here's a thought for Hollywood--bring in some other form of oppression occasionally, like Communism (which did kill over 100 million people in the last century) or at least make your villians more subtle? Every conservative in government is portrayed as a despicable piece of scum--so their hero V can kill them without considering their pesky humanity. It's all to justify the film's hero being a terrorist anarchist. Teen Antifa wannabes must have loved this movie. The anti hero, V, is utterly annoying. He's illogical and abusive to the one person he has a (twisted) relationship with-- the female lead Evey. Their 'love story' is problematic (in that he tortures her) and not fulfilling in the least. Just hard to watch for so many reasons, including V's verbose verbiage, which is supposed to be brilliant, but isn't. I'd really like my money back.