Brutally gorgeous and seething with incendiary images, the Wachowski brothers' monumental call to revolution, based on Alan Moore's gloomy graphic novel about a masked madman who restores anarchy to the U.K., is a vivid but muddled pulp political parable. The year is 2020, and Britain's citizens writhe beneath the boot of Big Brother-like leader Adam Sutler (John Hurt), whose party snatched power from the chaos 10 years earlier. Where once there was rioting in the streets and the ever-present threat of a man-made plague, the streets of London are quiet. The price: social conformity, constant government surveillance and swift, vicious retaliation against anyone who da...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
132 mins