John Hurt wears contact lenses to make his pupils look much bigger. You can see the edges of these coloured lenses when he's dead at the end of the movie. [So he wears contact lenses. So what? Contact lenses exist in the time frame of the film and people wear them for both corrective and cosmetic reasons. No reason at all why a character couldn't be seen to be wearing them.] Corrected by Tailkinker
V for Vendetta (2005) - 18 corrections
starring Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman
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John Hurt wears contact lenses to make his pupils look much bigger. You can see the edges of these coloured lenses when he's dead at the end of the movie. [So he wears contact lenses. So what? Contact lenses exist in the time frame of the film and people wear them for both corrective and cosmetic reasons. No reason at all why a character couldn't be seen to be wearing them.] Corrected by Tailkinker When V is fighting Creedy's men after they shoot him, he throws 2 knives, then takes 2 more. When he takes the other 2, we still see 4 knives in their sheaths. He only carries 6 knives, so he should throw 2, take 2, and leave 2. [V is an extremely intelligent and methodical man. It's more than likely that he took extra knives along with him in that scene. He was never seen actually withdrawing those knives from anywhere, so he may have had those as extras for just that occasion.] In the final scene of the movie, when all of the citizens are removing their masks, you can see Deitrich in the crowd, despite the finger killing him earlier for having a Koran in his house. [As explained in an answer to a question, this scene is shown through Evey's eyes. She is imagining Dietrich (and several others who are dead) standing there, as they are the ones V fought and died for.] Corrected by Twotall When Evey is being led into V's torture cell, she is being supported by two persons, one on each shoulder. Assuming one is V, the identity/existence of the assistant is never mentioned/revealed, and the movie implies V works alone.
It is acknowledged that the two-person carry perhaps keeps the audience in suspense as to the identity of the kidnapper, and actually improved the movie in that regard (being carried by one and only one person might have been a clue as to V being the kidnapper). [The movie never implies V works entirely alone. In fact, it shows just the opposite when V requests Evey's assistance on several occasions. It's logical enough the V could have employed the assistance of someone else (perhaps another person who V saved) to help carry out Evey's "cleansing." This was probably the same person who cut her hair, since she is in a fully lit room at the time.] Corrected by Phixius Near the end of the movie when chief inspector Finch is looking out his window in the morning he mutters "It's your big day, are you ready for it." However, that morning was November the fourth, not the fifth.(v was planning his revolution on the fifth. [At midnight on the fifth, to be exact. Which means anything that's left to be done must be done on the fourth, making it a very big day for V indeed.] Corrected by Phixius When Evie is reading the 'toilet paper story', its writer reveals that she "was born in Nottingham in 1985" and later that she "passed her 11+". The 11+ was an old school test to determine which children went to grammar school, and was abolished long before the mid-1990s, when she would have taken it. [There are certain regions in the UK where educational streaming is still practiced today. The 11-plus test still exists in those areas.] Corrected by Tailkinker When V captures Evey as she is escaping from Gordon Deitrich's house, he has a ninja-like mask on where you can see his eyes. However, Delia Surridge wrote in her diary that he had no eyes, and the flashback she had confirmed this. [The "he had no eyes" comment was meant metaphorically.] Corrected by Sereenie Stephen Rea, who plays Finch, seems to have a bit of trouble keeping his accents straight: at several points in the film, most notably during V's takeover of the Jordan Tower when he says "Cover these elevators," he slips from an English accent into his natural Irish accent. [It's mentioned later in the film that he's Irish and that there's something that he's ashamed of about it, so it's entirely in character that he'd affect an English accent that he might slip out of in times of stress.] During Valerie's story, she mentions meeting her girlfriend Anna around 2015. Despite this time frame, several anti-Bush signs are visible during the montage footage on TV of riots due to America's downfall/Sutler's rise to power. [Given that the story takes place in the future, it's conceivable that term limits were removed or extended in the US, and that Bush managed to get re-elected (or did something to put himself in power permanently).] Corrected by Xofer In the scene where "V" visits Dr. Delia Surridge at her residence, "V" informs Delia that he has administered her with a poison. Presumably this is the same poison "V" administered to his previous victims that causes them to vomit before they die. We watch Delia die, as well as see her dead body after "V" leaves and Inspector Finch arrives. We, however, do not see Delia vomit before dying, or find any vomit near her on her bed after she has died, although all the rest of "V"s previous poisoned victims have had assumingly vomited before they died. ["Presumably this is the same?" They had "assumingly vomited"? There is too much assumption here for this to be valid. There is absolutely nothing to suggest V used the same poison on Dr. Surridge as he did on the others, so it is just as likely that he used a different, "gentler" poison.] Corrected by Twotall When Evey goes back to V's house to dance on November 4th, she still has the bruise and cut from being hit with the gun a year before. [She does not. She only has a scar.] Corrected by Sereenie Towards the end of the film V and Evie kiss. One can see that there is a mouth hole in the mask. After he gets in the final fight with the group of men with guns, he comes back to Evie. As he is on the ground there is a blood mark on the mask and one can see that the mouth hole is now closed. [It is just the angle of the shots that make it look closed.] Corrected by Matt Lynch Near the end of the movie, as Creedy and his men shoot V, V stumbles backwards as they shoot, and in one shot V's hat flies off, into his hand, yet in the very next shot it is back on. [When he is crouching after being shot, you can see him putting it back on.] Corrected by Matt Lynch
The film seems to confuse England and Britain. Sutler and Prothero refer to England a lot when they're making national broadcasts, implying that England is now a separate country, but organisations still have British in front of them (e.g. British Television Network), implying that the UK is still united. [This is an utterly unfounded statement. The film never spells out the political situation in the country at the time, so the corrector has no way to state that this is just prejudice on the part of the characters (and indeed displays prejudice of their own by doing so).] Corrected by Xofer Sutler is supposed to come to power in our future (after 2015), but in the scenes of the riots that take place at the time the police still wear tunics and no body armour - British police officers have worn body armour for some time now and haven't worn tunics except on formal occasions for years. These scenes appear to actually be stock news footage, but the anachronism is still glaring. [This is a created world not our world. I don't think the government is killing off hundreds of thousands of people like they show in the movie so why would their police wear the same uniform?] V tells Evey that he had gotten the papers from from a woman named Valerie while he was in the camp. He leaves the camp after the 'accident' with the entire place in flames. How is it though, that he left there with the papers if the entire place, including his body, was in flames? [V never says that what is passed to Evey in the cell is the original letter. He must have read it several times and simply rewrote it by memory.] Corrected by Tailkinker In the beginning of the film we see V put his mask on from his perspective. There are no screens in the eyeholes. Yet several times throughout the film we see that the mask has screens in both eyeholes. [The mask never had clothed eyeholes as shown when V took out the mask and smashed it on a mirror. It is likely V wears a black cloth mask over his head before putting his mask on.] V is supposed to be solely responsible for Evey’s entire interrogation process. However, in the scene where Evey is getting her head shaved, it is quite visible under the transparent latex gloves that the hands belonging to the person holding the clippers are not discolored and burnt like V's which were visible earlier in the movie. [Since the room is brightly lit and she would've seen V's face or mask, it's likely he hired someone to shave her head.] Corrected by Xofer