I just saw it last night. It's pretty heavy-handed with its political message, which disappointed me. The novel was very subtle and required you to pay attention and do some thinking and observation while reading. This didn't. It was like being beaten with a political-party stick repeatedly, if you know what I mean.
But, that's typical Hollywood. They took a dirty, gritty, smart graphic novel and turned it into a slick smooth produced film.
Also, I think they could have gone to the three-hour length easily enough. For those of you who have not read the comic, you may want to see the film twice. Or read the book after-- the book is quite good.
SPOILER ALERT! Highlight to read. <span style="background-color:#000000;color:#000000;">They managed to ax an incredibly important part! In the book Eve looks at the dead V and thinks about taking his mask off. She imagines taking it off and seeing her father. She imagines taking it off and seeing her mother. She imagines taking it off and seeing herself. That's when she realizes that V was preparing her to take his position. In the novel, right after the bombing of parliament V appears on the rooftop of a building and says "Rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated". The entire point of the story was that there are destroyers, and there are builders. V was a destroyer, he knew that. He trained Eve, broke her, released her, and showed her in his own obscure manner that once he was dead, she was to take over the symbol of V and help rebuild England.
I can't understand why they nixed that. Without that little bit of info, tons of the movie makes no sense at all. The whole "I came from fire and was cleansed, you do it in the rain" sequence is pointless, for one...</span>
