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V for Vendetta

In short: I really liked it. I was dubious -- it was adapted by the brothers Wachowski, and while I found much to like in the Matrix 2&3, I have to acknowledge the movies' flaws as well. But here, with a protagonist in a grinning mask of Comedy, they manage to sidestamp camp and affect and cut to the emotional heart of revolution.

I was also struck by the final fight sequence -- there's a kind of neat reversal from the tropes of The Matrix. After all, somebody else needs lots of guns... and actually dodging bullets is so 1999.

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