Parents: This is not an action extravaganza; it is a highly disturbing, complex, and well made sci-fi morality tale with intense politics, provacative material, and some good action sequences. There are many disturbing issues (many of them graphically flash or are protracted on-screen), including torture, mass murder, governments killing hundreds of thousands, experimentation, child molestation, families being taken away from children and tortured/murdered, imprisonment, discrimination against homosexuals, and, finally, anarchy. A child is shot on screen (disturbing). A man is burned alive (his hands are seen on-screen; quite frightening). The action can get rough too; throats are slit, chests are impaled, people are smashed against floors and walls, etc. But, if you can stomach this material (and there is something almost constantly disturbing going on), then you should be in for a rare film that puzzles the mind, makes you think, and best of all, shocks you with two great twists in the middle, leaving you eagerly awaiting grand finale. But know this: if you are looking for a spectacular, epic final battle, I'm afraid you must go elsewhere. Otherwise, enjoy!
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V for Vendetta
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Not age appropriate for kids under 16, age appropriate for kids over 17; suggested age 16. -
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Common Sense says
Complex but heavy-handed action film. Adults only.
Why We Rated This 
for Ages 16–17
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What Parents Need to Know
About V for Vendetta
Parents need to know that this film includes recurring and explicit violence, including explosions, martial arts fights, knifings (with bloody results quite visible), shootings, and torture inside prison cells (where one character shares her space with a rat). The film opens with a flashback to a 1605 hanging, and then, in the present, an imminent rape (stopped by V's violent intervention). The film includes scenes of war and police state tactics, including the brutal incarceration of race and sexual minorities in Britain. A young girl sees her mother kidnapped by government flunkies, then witnesses a similar brutality as an adult. When a bishop arranges for sex with an underage girl (apparently a regular practice), he's killed as punishment (but not before he pushes his would-be girl victim onto his bed). Characters curse occasionally (infrequent use of the f-word, plus "bloody hell," "bitch," and the s-word).
Read our full review by Cynthia Fuchs
Families Can Talk About
- Families can talk about the film's presentation of terrorism as reasonable response to state oppression. Is violence ever an appropriate response? How do the evil chancellor's raging and V's tragic background (abused and institutionalized as a child) make V's cause seem sympathetic, even if it's illegal and aggressive? How does Evey's own childhood loss of her parents make her ready to be V's protégé? For fans of the book, families can discuss the differences between the film and its inspiration.
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- I rate this title iffy for age 17 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
Intense and Disturbing, but very Well Made for 17+
- I rate this title iffy for age 10 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
I rate this title iffy for age 16 and give itMy concerns are:- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
- My highlights are:
- Good role models
Excellent film, but as the R rating indicates, not for anyone under 17.
As you cna see with my concerns and highlights, I am a bit of a ccontradiction. While the main character is all about Justice, and does cross the line into revenge. This movie is definitely a thinking person's delight. Even now I still am unsure of whether or not I believe that the character V is or is not in the right. About a half dozen uses of the F word, 15+ S words, and many more milder profanities. The violence(especially at the end) is very bloody and graphic. A massive grave holds hundreds of nakid dead bodies, and a woman is tortured. All of this is very disturbing. At the beginning of the film a gang attempts to rape a woman,(they are unable to fulfill the deed) and later on a priest attepmts to do the same(again unsuccessfull). Overall, great movie, it has really inspired some thought. HOwever, this is in no way shape or form for children.
- I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Inappropriate language
- Negative role models
N for Not For Kids
I liked it a lot but i think it's messages may go over some kids' heads and i thought that the throat-slashing finale was WAY overdone, not too mention the many bad words and the sexual implications.
- I rate this title iffy for age 15 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
Absolutely Fantastic!
All the people I know that don't like this movie said that they didn't like it because they didn't get it. My advice is to turn on the subtitles in the movie because information comes at you very quickly and if you miss anything, the experience will be ruined. If you do understand it fully, however, you'll enjoy an emotion-filled tale of a people's rebellion over a dictatorship all led by two incredible characters.
- Lives in FloridaI rate this title on for age 16 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate language
- I rate this title on for age 12 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
good movie, why R???
i think that this movie isn't that bad and shouldn't be rated R I know that it's violent but not realistic.
- I rate this title iffy for age 14 and give it
If you gave the Phantom of the Opera six swords and 007-style fighting moves, and put him into George Orwell's 1984, you might get something like this movie. It's 2020,and the English government has taken total control. No one dares to do anything except for V, a masked man tortured by the government. On Guy Fawkes Night he plans to change England, but this goes awry when he rescues Evey Hammond, who he then adopts. I really liked this movie. It isn't appropriate for everyone, but Commonsense does exaggerate. The message is not, as Commonsense puts it, to extol terrorism. When the government goes as far as this, it is better for the people to attempt to change it than for them to be tortured and executed for holding a copy of the Koran. It is violent,however. V cuts a couple of throats, several people are shot, the government clubs people and takes them to torture camps, and the bodies of several people are found. There isn’t too much sex – some kissing, and Evey is nearly raped twice, rescued both times by V. I highly recommend this movie, but parents should watch it either with or before their kids do.
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
this is not a kids movie but not why you think
so many reviews lose the message of the moviebut the real fact is the movie does have violence and sex but the thing is the movie message is more about how ideas never die and we deserve our rights i think violence solves nothing permently but some times you have to change it with violence for peace to even have a chance existing this movie is deep and thought provoking that raises many moral points like what would you do for peace by what means all parents like me should watch this movie and figure out if your kid will see it for more then just another movie with knives but for the message it holds
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
- I rate this title iffy for age 13 and give it
amazing
this movie is amazing any one over old enough to understand it should see it
- I rate this title off for age 2 and give it
uh...
Some extremely disturbing images and extremely violent, and sex not so bad but still only for 18+!!!
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
its pretty cool
alright, the only reason why i really saw it in the first place was because its main date is November the 5th and i was born on that date, but there are reasons why people should and should not watch it. V is a very memorable character with a interesting personality and philosophy. he is a lovable and eccentric person that loves the arts and is an excellent fighter. buts hes a terrorist and blows up two buildings (don't let the pretty fireworks fool you) and murders countless people in graphic and none graphic ways. but he claims he is saving the country from their government and trying to bring peace to future england. so there is lots of blood, and i say LOTS of it. it shows a mass grave with the corpses of people who were experimented on in a lab for some biological weapon. and it features a child being shot and killed for wearing a guy fawks mask. to add onto the violence, at the end v breaks a mans neck with his own hands right on camera. so i say preteens should not see it from what i listed above and because of the scene when evey is almost molested by a bishop wile being dressed as a little girl. but when people are teenagers and going to see a movie like this, it all depends on what they were told by their parents. if you are a parent reading this and you have a teenager who wants to see this, watch it with them.
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
this movie was great. and theres not alot of bad stuff in it, the violence is one scene- very bloodly, so bloody i laughed. there is sex content, but there is nothing that was R rated. i think 13 and up
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
Very Good. Very Violent.
This is a fantastic movie, full of political intrigue and action. It is, however, extremely violent. Knifings, shootings, general killing all around. I wasn't very disturbed by it, but others might be. I suggest probably 13 or older.
- I rate this title on for age 2 and give it
LOVE this movie
V for Vendetta is without a doubt the best movie made in 2006. it's smart, actiony, and it has an AMAZING story. slight bit o blood, but nothing to cry to mommy about. granted, the language is a bit adult, a cuss here or there, but really its because the average kid would have no clue what the characters are saying. the vocabulary is very sophisticated and well written and intellegent. there's alot of dark humor and sarcastic quirks to V that make him very entertaining. LOVED IT.
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
Best Movie
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
great movie
it is more on the political side so children probable wont get it and there is violence and language not so much sex , but for strong minded opinionated adults
- I rate this title iffy for age 11 and give it
- I rate this title iffy for age 2 and give it
this is a really good movie
If you decide to see this movie then let me warn you there is some partial nudity at a place called BTN but it is over in a couple of minutes. After that, there is none except for some nude dead bodies but the worst parts are blocked out by a light. There are some blood splatters that are kind of violent but most boys who see them won't mind, unless they don't like violence whatsoever. The movie centers around the "Gunpowder Treason Plot". explained at the beginning. If you are going to watch this movie watch it for what happens not for the explosions There are only two. The movie is pretty good but there are some torture scenes. There are some bad words too like the f word twice, the bs-word at least once. i have heard it is and attack on the bush administration. I can kind of see that.
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| 100% | of parents say it's too violent |
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