V for Vendetta is a 2005 drama based on the 1982 graphic novel.
The movie stars Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry, and Stephen Rea.
The graphic novel was published within Warrior, a British comics anthology, from 1982 to 1985 before the publishers cancelled Warrior.
DC Comics eventually acquired the rights to make the film.
The following is a review for Netflix, where the time shown is the time remaining.
Rating: R for strong violence and some language.
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes.
Category | Severity | Time Remaining | Description | Sentence Before |
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2:11:10-2:11:00 | Multiple brief fights are seen. | Evey: "But who was he, really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea and not the man... because man can fail." | ||
2:10:49-2:10:25 | A graphic hanging is seen. | Evey: "I've witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I've seen people killed in the name of them... and die defending them." | ||
2:07:20-2:06:43 | Sexual assault is threatened. | Fingerman: "That she did. You know what that means, don't you? It means we exercise our own judicial discretion." | ||
2:06:38-2:05:52 | Multiple brief fights are seen. | V: "Disdaining fortune with his brandished steel which smoked with execution." Fingerman: "We're Fingermen, pal." | ||
2:02:12-2:02:09 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | V: "Listen carefully, can you hear it? Now the brass." Evey: "I can hear it!" | ||
1:59:23-1:59:20 | A flyover view appears briefly. | Chancellor Sutler: "England prevails!" Council: "England prevails." | ||
1:48:37-1:48:20 | Blood is seen twice briefly. | Hostage: "Don't shoot me, please! It's him! It's him!" Police: "On your knees! On your knees!" | ||
1:48:37-1:47:34 | Brief fights occur. | Hostage: "Don't shoot me, please! It's him! It's him!" Police: "On your knees! On your knees!" | ||
1:45:07-1:43:46 | Butterfly displays are seen multiple times. | ♫ Told me you were through with me. And now you say... ♫ | ||
1:43:34-1:43:31 | Torture is mentioned once. | V: "If I'd left you there, right now, you'd be in one of Creedy's interrogation cells." | ||
1:42:20-1:41:44 | Severe burn scars are seen briefly multiple times. | Dascomb: "Nothing but bad luck here." Finch: "So, we know her story. Now we need his." | ||
1:37:24-1:37:00 | Vomit is seen briefly multiple times. | Dascomb: "We have to get control of the situation." Finch: "What situation?" | ||
1:30:41-1:30:06 | Multiple fights are seen briefly. | Evey: "When Sutler was appointed High Chancellor, they were at the riot in Leeds. I watched on the television..." | ||
1:25:32-1:25:16 | An attempted sexual assault occurs. | Lilliman: "Wonderful! It's a game I've never played! What a delightful mind you have. I hope the rest of you is just as interesting." | ||
1:17:52-1:17:47 | Suicide is mentioned briefly. | Police: "There's a problem with the connection." Finch: "Jesus Christ. He's there." | ||
1:16:36-1:16:29 | A needle is seen. | V: "...only the illusion of coincidence. I have another rose...and this one's for you." | ||
1:13:48-1:13:32 | Corpses are seen and interacted with. | Delia: "They're so weak and pathetic. They never look you in the eye. I find myself hating them." | ||
1:03:59-1:03:40 | A bloody face is seen briefly multiple times. | Evey: "Gordon?" Gordon: "Quick! Evey, hide!" | ||
1:03:08-1:03:06 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | Creedy: "Not so funny now, is it, Funny Man?" ... | ||
1:01:09-1:01:00 | Torture is seen briefly. | Man: "You can return to your life, Ms. Hammond. All you have to do is cooperate. Process her." ... | ||
1:00:40-1:00:24 | Elevated views are seen. | Man: "You can return to your life, Ms. Hammond. All you have to do is cooperate. Process her." ... | ||
0:58:02-0:57:52 | Torture occurs. | Valerie: "Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free." | ||
0:58:02-0:57:52 | A person's head is held under water. | Valerie: "Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free." | ||
0:57:53-0:57:38 | An elevated view is seen again. | Man: "it ends whenever you want it to. Just tell us where he is." Evey: "I don't know." | ||
0:50:19-0:50:11 | Torture is mentioned briefly. | Every: "You did this to me? You cut my hair?" | ||
0:47:13-0:47:07 | A descending view is seen. | V: "There's a lift that'll take us to the roof."... Evey: "God is in the rain." | ||
0:38:34-0:38:29 | Corpses are seen. | Rookwood: "imagine a virus -- the most terrifying virus you can -- and then imagine that you, and you alone, have the cure." | ||
0:38:27-0:38:24 | is said once. | Rookwood: "But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon?" | ||
0:38:19-0:38:14 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | Rookwood: "He is a man seemingly without a conscience, for whom the end always justify the means, and it is he who suggests..." | ||
0:36:11-0:36:07 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | Rookwood: "Well, for you, Inspector. I needed you." | ||
0:34:00-0:33:57 | Butterflies are briefly mentioned. | Actors (on television): "May we come up? You find your own tree." ... | ||
0:32:11-0:32:08 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | Sutler: "We are being buried beneath the avalanche of you inadequacies, Mr. Creedy." | ||
0:30:30-0:30:28 | A hanging is seen again briefly. | Finch: "It was like I could see the whole thing -- one long chain of events that streched all the way back before Larkhill. I felt like I could see..." | ||
0:30:01-0:29:59 | A bloody face is seen again briefly. | Finch: "And I realized that we were all part of it. And all trapped by it." | ||
0:29:40-0:29:30 | Blood from a gunshot wound is briefly seen. | Finch: "No. It was a feeling. But I can guess. With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid." | ||
0:29:24-0:29:21 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | Finch: " And when they do, things will turn nasty." | ||
0:27:08-0:25:42 | Butterfly collections are seen multiple times in the background. | Evey: "I miss this song." V: "I didn't think you'd come." | ||
0:20:28-0:20:25 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | Evey: "That's not true." ... V: "I can't." ... | ||
0:19:14-0:18:34 | Blood and a bullet wound are seen close up. | Sutler: "Tonight, I give you my most solemn vow that justice will be swift; it will be righteous... And it will be without mercy." | ||
0:18:13-0:18:09 | Brief fights are seen. | Creedy: "Now that's done with... There's time to have a look at your face." V: "No." ... | ||
0:16:42-0:15:42 | Multiple bloody wounds are seen in slow motion. | Creedy: "That's impossible! Kill him!" ... V: "My turn." ... | ||
0:16:24-0:16:22 | An elevated view is seen briefly. | Creedy: "That's impossible! Kill him!" ... V: "My turn." ... | ||
0:11:24-0:10:40 | Multiple elevated view are seen. | Commander: "Barrier, stand down! Stand down!" |
Reviewed November 2013; Updated June 2016