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My brother has the trade paperback, I'll be trying to get it next week.
I thought Natalie Portman was good, gave it her best, but she fought an uneven fight against her fake accent. It felt as elaborate and tense as Jolie's (albeit posher) dialect in "Tomb Raider". The part where Evie tries to confess and get help from the pedophile bishop was her weakest scene, I first thought she was trying to sound like a schoolgirl and lure him but she really was serious about betraying V.
I thought this was Weaving's best performance yet, and I was grateful that the mask stayed on. A few people snickered when Evie kissed his mask, but I could see how it would've made sense in the graphic novel, aesthetically.
I got a real vibe of "Agent Smith" as he stood in the doorway of Evie's cell, proclaiming her fear-free. Almost as if it was a homage, but then I realized Smith's appearance is a perfect rendition of the quintessential male british government employee, such as in a prison.
Did V actually have any superhuman abilities due to surviving/assimilating the plague treatments, or was his confident, Resident Evilesque pose at the burning prison complex just him suffering a neurosis?
Also, how did the camp explode? Did V punch through the wall and rupture a propane tank?
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