End of Summer DVD Round-Up
Aug 29, 2006 - Lynn Barker
Have a wide variety of friends and family to please when you sit down for a home movie watchin' night? Let's check out a new adventure release and go over some great classics! Something for everybody at your end of summer blow out.
From Warner Home Video
V For Vendetta: Two Disc Special Edition
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Set in the year 2020, Britain is under a fascist regime that has rounded up minorities, gays and political dissidents and exterminated them. All that is left is a fearful and terrified public. Standing up for them against the evil government is V (Hugo Weaving) who wears a mask and dresses like Guy Fawkes, an anti-government extremist who tried to blow up Parliament back in 1605.
Shy worker girl Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman) is grabbed by government henchmen for breaking curfew. V saves her and enlists her to help him. It's a rather twisted relationship as Evey is won over while police detective Finch (Stephen Rea) is investigating V's every move.
Video: Great transfer, greater on widescreen TV. Colors are a bit muted but that's the film's style. Hey, it's quite a new film so it still looks great.
Audio: The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound is pretty awesome with heavy bass and good surround and the action sequences really rock out. Dialogue comes out fine although I never could understand all of "V's" rhymes.





