Saw V for Vendetta finally. First things first: Natalie Portman is beautiful. Too young for my taste, would have been even when I was her age, but dammit she is so nice to look at! And she has hips! The lines in her face and that wider butt have made her more womanly, so that in 10 or so years he might have a place in my er, fantasy-life. Also, her head is nicely shaped, fortunately. [Note that at 14 I was attracted to the same age-group I am now at 31, namely the 35-50's. I wonder if when I'm fifty, should I survive that long (I shudder to think), I will be attracted to 70 year-old women. Hell, some of them look good to me now. ]

Her accent-work is more than fine, it's Streepishly good. Her emotional range is a little bit underdeveloped. She doesn't hit distress as well as I wanted her to (like in the scene where she finds out that V decieved her), but she gets close enough to make me respect her acting. She doesn't do nuance very well. Her conversations with Stephen Fry could have been done better if she wasn't concentrating on her accent. I have a feeling she will get better about all of this though.

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