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Leonidas:
Nope. Honestly, I can't tell you the story about her getting imprisoned and tortured/questioned. It really would spoil the movie for you. What I will do however, once the movie is out, and if it has been changed (which I suspect it probably has) then I'll tell you.

Ozymandias:
It's getting mixed reviews, with a skew towards 'good' rather than 'bad'.

Though the reviews that have read the original novel seem to be overwhelmingly good.

Leonidas:
From the review by Edward Douglas:

When Evey is captured and tortured, the film begins to follow Moore's story verbatim, including a particularly moving subplot some may expect to be cut from the movie, and it's sure to evoke emotion even more than the way it was handled originally.

It's been kept a little vauge deliberately, but I believe (hope) that this might mean that the reasoning behind Eveys capture/torture/interrogation has been kept the same as in the graphic novel.

Trollstormur:
Having read the comic some time ago and forgotten a lot of details, I would wholeheartedly suggest this movie to anyone who's read V or not.


I felt it was a wonderful rendition of the story and everything happened how it should have, in my humble opinion.

Leonidas:
I'm not long back from seeing this movie, and in terms of a review, this is my best shot...

As a fan of the comic book I am aware that I went into this movie with perhaps certain expectations. Expectations however I also knew were likely not to be met. As with all comic book adaptations there are certain parts and story lines which have to be removed or played with in order to keep the continuity of the movie. The important part is that if what has been played with and removed been replaced with suitable material. Material which will allow the characters to develop as they should, and will not take away from the story.

Essentially, anything which will try and "Hollywood" the movie is always a bad move in my eyes.

Now it's quite hard to write a full review without giving too much of the story away. Needless to say though that the movie itself does raise some very interesting points about the role of government and power. Not only the abuse of power, but also how governments are able to gain so much power in the first place. Not least through the use of fear. The fear of different religions, different races, different sexualites. Even fear of your neighbours.... And just how this fear can be bred and used against the people as an assault on their personal liberities.An interesting parallel between the movie and the current governemts of the US and the UK.

One part of the movie I was so glad was not sanitised or changed however was the imprisonment of Evey. Such a hard concept to grasp, the reasoning behind her imprisonment, yet one which does show a twisted sense of logic. I won't go into it any further than to say if it had been played with, then I would have disliked this movie intensely.

Hugo Weaving as V is superb, being able to express a whole range of emotions from behind a mask no less. As is his spoken work, which, with the way V can slip in and out of quoting Shakespere to speaking French is no mean feat. And despite various reviews I have read slating Portman for her performance and her English accent, I would have only good things to say about both. Especially the scene where she is set free. Above all this was the scene that I was most looking forward to.

So whilst I would have criticisims of the movie from a comic fanboy point of view (where's FATE? Where are Prothero's dolls? The change in sequence of the bombings), taken on it's own merits as a movie it is one I thought was fantastic. The fact I thought it could have been better is only the comic book fan in me speaking.

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