While I would not recomend this movie for children, I believe everyone over 17 should see it at least once. You get to see corrupt ambitioin at it's worst and what it can do to a nation and also how it ruins individual lives, and also the courage of the individuals to fight against it. Our two hero's are played brilliantly by the adorable Natalie Portman, who is impossible to dislike, and Hugo Weaving of Matrix and Lord of the Rings fame. While there is some swearing and a little bit of raunchiness, it's not unnecessary or over the top, as it is there to demonstrate the wickedness of the bad guys. This is a great movie, set in the not to distant future in England, about what could happen if government gets out of control. Basically this movie has something for everyone so get it today and enjoy. V for Vendetta is visually appealing, has excellent fight sequences, good acting, and a great story line. The story line is also quite good and keeps you guessing through most of the movie. Natalie Portman is quite good as is Stephen Rea and John Hurt in a supporting role. The story moves along crisply with no real slow points and the acting is solid. The special effects are excellent as is the mood and atmosphere they create for the film. The Wachowski Brothers, who released the Matrix movies, do an impressive job of translating this comic to film. V for Vendetta was originally a DC comic and the movie stays true to that origin. V can spout poetry one moment and throw knives with deadly accuracy the next. Fighting this oppression is the masked V who is perhaps the most intelligent yet deadly crime fighter / rebel ever seen. Those that deviate from the norm are removed and either tortured or killed. It features an England of the future whose repressive government constantly monitors its populace for signs of rebellion, or subversion. Very scarce.This movie is a cross between George Orwell's 1984 and the Matrix. A fine hardcover copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a tiny chip missing from the rear flap fold. First hardcover edition (stated "First Printing" on the copyright page with a paper label identifying the printer as Ronalds Printing the name of the printer of the paperback edition is blacked out, as issued). This is the only edition of V for Vendetta in hardcover format until the 2005 movie tie-in edition. Its inspiration, Guy Fawkes, allowed Moore to explore themes of political repression and anarchism, unusual topics for comics and graphic novels at the time. This is one of the most significant graphic novels of the 1980s, written beginning in 1981 as a response to Thatcherism in the United Kingdom. This is the first hardcover issue of Moore and Lloyd's influential graphic novel, published by the Book of the Month Club (the commercially published version was a paperback). Skillfully plotted, V is an essential read for all those who love comics and the freedom, as a medium, they allow a writer as skilled as Moore. The original series was black and white and that added to the grittiness of the feel while the coloring here in the graphic novel sometimes blurs David Lloyd's fine drawing. V feels slightly dated like all past premonitions do. The only blot on its particular landscape is a lone terrorist who is systematically killing all the government personnel associated with a now destroyed secret concentration camp. It is 1998 (which was the future back then! ) and a Fascist government has taken over the U. He began V back in 1981 and it constituted one of his first attempts (along with the criminally neglected but equally superb Miracleman) at writing an ongoing series. Alan Moore has led the field in intelligent, politically astute (if slightly paranoid), complex adult comic-book writing since the early 1980s. V for Vendetta is, like its author's later Watchmen, a landmark in comic-book writing. Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities.
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