I enjoyed it.

Secret police enforce strict laws, such as raping women who are found breaking curfew. Homosexuals are dragged off and put to death. The media is controlled by the government, only "reporting" the official government line. The most popular late-night talk show host is rounded up by the government within hours of his show running a parody of the nation's leader. During the subsequent [most likely warrentless] search of his house, a banned religious book is found; he is executed, possibly without a trial. The government listens in to any conversation they can get their ears on, and reports their findings up the chain. Art is banned. The authorities within the police state report directly to the head of the government; no appearance of any representitive body that I can remember, except perhaps in flashbacks. In fact, I don't recall much discussion of any judiciary branch.

"Inconvenient" facts are covered up. The state-run media investigates nothing. Even official police inquiries are waved off if they come too close to embarassing state secrets. The investigator who continues to dig finds a ghoulish and reprehensible secret -- which reminded me of Rutger Hauer's character in Fatherland -- and has to ask, "If our own government was responsible... would you really want to know?"

The struggle in the movie is against this government.

I figure that people will see what they want to see in the film. Some will see the current US government; others will see a film that glorifies terrorism and villifies the guy they voted for. Personally, I saw fictional "bad guys" who needed to get whooped, and a fictional "good guy" to root for.

I browsed around to check what some of the other blogs had to say. I only found one site worth linking to. I found several sites that I won't ever waste my time reading. [if you knew how much time I regularly waste, you'd realize what an insult that really is...]

There are places on earth today that resemble V for Vendetta, and America will never join that list. Ever.