Superbly done, even in the comic-book-adaptation standards. It's inteligent, wickedly entertaining and at the same time, driven by two of the most suprising performances i've seen since 2006 had started. V For Vendetta is a feast to the eyes with gorgeous and haunting images, both visceral and revolutionary to its deepest sense. The Wachowski brothers had solidly created a majestic bravura, a breakthrough from the bleak walls that they had built upon the very horrible Matrix Revolutions. First stop, I enjoyed the film. Based upon Guy Fawkes idea of freedom from the future anarchy of Britain, it is surely a peek through one of the possibilities of the future, where Britain's monarchy had fled and now slapped with dictatorship or should I call, totalitarianism. Imagine London streets drifting with smoke with no people strutting around, streets where there are speakers built upon buildings, streets where there is a curfew hour and anyone seen would be in great peril. Imagine a world where there is only one voice to be heard and everybody follows, otherwise, you'd be killed. Imagine a land where the innocent people suffer, sick people gets faster death (i.e. AIDS victims), a land where homosexuality is a taboo, lesbians and gays alike are killed with any inteligible reason at all. This is the world of V For Vendetta, and a man who believed in freedom is juts about to change that all.Second stop, I was mesmerised by the delivered performances. Natalie Portaman is a stunner. Her own craft in the character is solid and shaving her head off would be the one thing that I wouldn't bet bollocks in doing it. Hugo Weaving, on the other hand, playing as "V", hides all the time beneath the mask (not a single second his face was shown) but still able to bring out the wraith-like character of V with style and affluence it deserve, both gracefully and swifty at times. The best scene there is for him was the final scene where he battles tons of police officers with matching Wachowski-trademark slow-motion sequence. Damn, it was poetry in motion, with blood, knives and gore.Last stop, I quite entertained the socio-political idea of it. I tell you now, the film is not the biggest action movie that you wanted to see. V For Vendetta is filled with talks rather than actions, filled with ideas rather than thrills, and filled with visual concoction rather than your normal Jerry-Bruckheimer-wham-bam-kind-of-entertainment. But all in all, it pretty well worked for me with its combined political allegory and ideas of revolution for the betterment of the society. Sometimes it could be as silly as hell, but I think hell couldn't quite handle its silliness because its being silliness becomes a figment of an intelligent mind. As what "V" said, "People should not be afraid of its government, it should be the government that should be afraid of its people." Well, I do think that says it all.

Rating: A-