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Saw V for Vendetta last night. It was pretty good. Relative to the other Alan Moore graphic novel that's been put to screen (From Hell), the V adaptation was much better. Most of the fears that I had about this film weren't realized: the Matrix Bros. dialogue was not horrible (perhaps because they had such good source material), they didn't skip any real major plot points, the narrative structure was mostly intact, and it didn't resemble either of the latter two Matrix films. The part that was pulled off the worst was perhaps the pacing, which is understandable. There is so much material in the V novel that I could have seen it filling up over six hours of film easily. The most clumsy sequence is the one where Evey is supposed to be imprisoned and tortured for the better part of a year - it feels more like she's only locked up for a week. All in all, it was impressively faithful, well filmed, well acted, and enjoyable. Most people will have a problem with V for its politics. Some people have taken the stance that politics shouldn't be a part of film in general... but then again no one complains about neofascist movies like Batman Begins being political (I enjoyed that movie very much also).