Yet, not everyone blindly follows the government, with the main dissenter being a masked vigilante known only as V (HUGO WEAVING). On the night that he blows up a building as a symbol of his protest, he also saves mild-mannered TV employee Evey (NATALIE PORTMAN) -- who works for TV show host Gordon Deitrich (STEPHEN FRY) -- from a bunch of thugs.
When he later runs into her again at the TV station where he hijacks the airwaves to announce his dissent to everyone, he once again saves her -- this time from certain government torture for helping him -- and returns her to his secret lair. It's there that she learns he's planning to blow up Parliament on the next anniversary of Guy Fawkes Day (an early 17th century protestor who tried to do the same). But he's also on a spree of avenging past wrongs committed against him and others.
Those acts leave a trail of bodies that quickly grab the attention of Chief Inspector Finch (STEPHEN REA) and his assistant Dominic (RUPERT GRAVES) who not only want to solve them, but also want to find Evey and learn what's going on before Creedy and his goons get their hands on her. As the weeks and months pass by, V -- eventually with Evey's help -- sets out to carry out his plan that he hopes will wake up the masses and lead them into revolt against their oppressive government.
Violence consists of people being killed by various means (mainly weaponry), while other fighting, beatings, and destruction of buildings occurs. Some of that violence has bloody results (other imagery shows bad looking lesions and burns), while those scenes and other moments of peril (including some torture material and a scene where several men seem intent on raping a woman) may be disturbing and/or suspenseful to viewers. Some of the stunts, fighting and other action may be enticing for some kids to imitate.
All sorts of bad attitudes are present (from both the "good and "bad" characters), as are various thematic issues. A flashback shows a girl seeing her mother beaten and then taken away (never to be seen again), while other tense family material is also present. Some characters drink and/or smoke, while there's brief talk of drugs being present at a person's home.
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(2006) (Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving) (R)
Alcohol/
DrugsBlood/Gore
Disrespectful/
Bad AttitudeFrightening/
Tense ScenesGuns/
Weapons
Moderate
Heavy
Extreme
Heavy
Extreme
Imitative
BehaviorJump
ScenesMusic
(Scary/Tense)Music
(Inappropriate)Profanity
Mild
None
Heavy
None
Heavy
Sex/
NuditySmoking
Tense Family
ScenesTopics To
Talk AboutViolence
Heavy
Mild
Heavy
Heavy
Extreme
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Reviewed March 10, 2006 / Posted March 17, 2006
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