`V for Vendetta'. From: The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) | Date: March 15, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2006 The Orlando Sentinel. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Roger Moore

Vehement. Violent. Vivid. Verbose.

That's how "V for Vendetta," the Wachowski Brothers' adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel about one man fighting a fascist future, begins.

In 20 breathless minutes, we are tossed into a world where only the Limbaughs and O'Reillys get time on State TV, where thought police sweep the streets, listening for seditious "non-conformist" thought, where "America's War" has brought down America and left England's conservatives in rigid, uncompromising, unrelenting control of its people _ anti-immigrant. Anti-gay. ...

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