Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 132 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V rescues a young woman from the secret police, he finds in her an ally with whom he can continue his fight to free the people of Britain.
- government
- detective
- revolution
- dystopia
- fascism
- fascist
- chancellor
- based on comic
- revenge
- female protagonist
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- John Hurt — Adam Sutler
- Tim Pigott-Smith — Creedy
- Rupert Graves — Dominic
- Roger Allam — Lewis Prothero
- Ben Miles — Dascomb
- Sinéad Cusack — Delia Surridge
- Natasha Wightman — Valerie
- John Standing — Lilliman
- Eddie Marsan — Etheridge
- Clive Ashborn — Guy Fawkes
- Emma Field-Rayner — Guy Fawkes Lover
- Directed
- James McTeigue
- Written
- Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 15,893 ratings
- Studio
- Virtual Studios, Anarchos Productions, Silver Pictures, Fünfte Babelsberg Film, Warner Bros. Productions, DC Vertigo
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
