Not only do I think it's a pretty prophetic cult film, but it's also fast-paced and highly entertaining narrating its dystopia about the anarchist vigilante wearing the Guy Fawkes mask to fight a totalitarian regime. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 10, 2024

[Alan] Moore wrote the novel as a commentary on Thatcher's England and the film retains the London setting, but it only takes a few key phrases to echo the post-9/11 era and the rhetoric of the current American administration.

| Aug 19, 2023

Beyond being interesting, the film is purposeful... [Full review in Spanish]

| Dec 21, 2022

There is a good message hidden somewhere under the clunky and peremptory politics, but I lost my grasp of it halfway through.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Natalie Portman's best film

| Apr 6, 2021

Ordinary people are portrayed as zombies, glued to their television sets, who need to be galvanized by bombings.

| Feb 14, 2021

The explosive adventure, the riveting visuals, Portman's powerful performance, and the striking finale combine for a thoroughly entertaining masterwork.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Nov 21, 2020

Its import rests in the muddy waters it navigates and the difficult questions it ponders.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 6, 2020

Portman was an excellent choice to portray the vulnerable Evey who possesses an inner strength she never knew existed before she met V.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 2, 2020

Release date frustration aside, V for Vendetta remains just as thought-provoking as ever and stands out as a highlight to the Wachowski's ability to write scenes that delight, thrill, and frighten almost all at once.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 1, 2020

Manages to satisfy as fanfare entertainment, while astutely contemplating dark and mature themes. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 14, 2020

[Alan Moore] is probably going to wish he had allowed his name in the credits alongside artist David Lloyd, because V for Vendetta has survived the transition to the big screen with its bite intact.

| Jan 8, 2020

With such a revolutionary attitude, big themes and incendiary topics, it's amazing how bland the final product of the film can be.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 5, 2019

A bizarre, farcical, political allegory-cum-thriller.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2019

Although V for Vendetta doesn't have the sneaky pop sophistication of at least the first Matrix film, it does often deliver its hokum with quite a bit of flair.

| Nov 6, 2018

If the secret police ever want to get anything out of me, all they have to do is sit me down in front of this film. I'd tell them I was the third man on the grassy knoll just to make them switch it off.

| Feb 1, 2018

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.

| Jan 16, 2018

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 5, 2018

By leaping into fantasy and heading for its own version of a happy ending with all guns blazing, however, it blows the competition - not to mention the Houses of Parliament - out of the water.

| Sep 26, 2017

Speaking of love, things go blooey instead of gooey whenever heroine and hero come close enough to touch; far from being sensual, let alone erotic, the movie proves to be not much fun at all.

| Apr 14, 2013