Everything Wrong With V FOR VENDETTA Is Inexplicably 18 Minutes Long
Cinema Sins is back with yet another "Everything Wrong With" video and this time they take aim at James McTeigue's V For Vendetta, which is based on Alan Moore's 1982 graphic novel. The screenplay was written by the Wachowskis ("The Matrix").
In an alternate future where Germany won World War II and Great Britain is now a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as "V" conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When "V" rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally and a protégé with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain. Starring Academy Award-nominees and Golden Globe-winners Natalie Portman ("Closer," "Star Wars" episodes 1-3) and John Hurt ("Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," "Hellboy"), Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominee Stephen Rea ("Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles," "The Crying Game") and Hugo Weaving ("The Matrix" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy). Written and produced by the Wachowski brothers, creators of "The Matrix" trilogy.