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FiyaStarter RATING =  (3½)Fiyaballs“People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.”
Wait, lemme back up…just to get the biggest concern out of the way. No, this isn’t The Matrix, Part 4: Neo Britain (ehhhhhh?). It’s more like Equilibrium, Part 2 or maybe Orwell’s Animal Farm, Version 1.5. Based on an 80’s comic book, only nerds and the fat comic book store dude on The Simpsons would know shit about, Vendetta is set a tad in the future in Britain, where everyone has flat screen TV’s and obeys the government, but for some reason still haven’t embraced the dental system. Now, as I was saying, this movie is about “Big Brother” being bad, yadda yadda, whatever. Yeah, we all know that story like the back of our hands, what you really want to know is, “Do they make that shit good enough for me to spend this $9.50 on this brawd, Reggie? I just know her ghetto ass gonna slide over to that concession stand like she’s trying to draw a charge, I just know it!” Truth is y’all, I dunno, it’s a game-time decision for you, keep reading and you make the call. Now, don’t get me wrong, V was pretty good, but it just didn’t wow me like I thought it would, especially with the Matrix dudes attached to it. Maybe I was expecting too much or maybe the female crackhead (is that a “PC” term or even a necessary one, I have no idea) who kept switching seats, moving closer and closer to me had me noid and agitated, but I just never got into that “on the edge of my seat” zone. In fact, by the time Natalie Portman (oh yeah, she did a great job, nominate her and throw her a party) got her G.I. Jane caesar, I was ready for the final scene to see if the action could salvage ALL THE DAMN DIALOGUE that dominates this film. These ‘Wach Bros. include too many drawn out philosophical theses in their films. We’re not dumb, we can read in between the lines. We get it, do something cool already. I’m not exaggerating either, after the first scene where V (Weaving in a cool mask that will own Halloween '06) talks a hole in Evey’s (Portman) head, for the rest of the film he reminded me of that wack dude at the club who will stand there rapping to a chick for a three hours and never seal the fucking deal. I coulda been got in there, got the number and rolled, thrice. ‘Ol Giorgio Brutini with some Old Navy Jeans ass corny nigga…that type shit. If they could have trimmed some of that dialogue and replaced it with more entertaining stuff like that FIYA SWORD-TIME fight, we could be talking cinematic history here. Everything else is in place; I mean they take the most shots at Bush only second to Fox’s 24, they cleverly poke fun at the supposed hierarchy in society, they use one of my favorite words “bullocks” to death and the scene where Weaving hijacks a TV station, a man hasn’t done that this effective since OJ in June of ’94. V was aight, but all that dialogue watered down what seemed like a juiced up thriller.
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Should
you go see V for Vendetta,
you will have no choice but to know these words or at least the
theme by heart by the time you leave your local Cineplex. Hugo
Weaving, who is putting his strong bid into to being Denzel Washington
to the Wachowski Brothers’ Spike
Lee, makes sure you won’t depart without knowing it. For
over two hours, he eloquently (at times) informs you of how evil
the state is; from the hierarchy to the church on down to the medical
profession. They’re wrong and they need to be murdered…Nope,
all of ‘em.