V for Vendetta.(PREVIEW)(Movie review)(Brief article)

Interview | April 1, 2006| | Copyright

(Warner Bros.) Directed by James McTeigue

Leave it to the whacked-out Wachowski Brothers--creators of the Matrix trilogy--to spark what has already been called a return to "movies as cultural sabotage," or the sort of filmmaking that changes the way we think about things. Vendetta follows its shifty protagonist known only as V (Hugo Weaving) as he takes on an equally shadowy totalitarian regime and finds a fast ...

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