Well done... very balanced review... and yes... this movie was wonderful... maybe not a cult movie like the matrix, but definitely more mature and very nicely executed. The Wachowski brothers have grown up...
A movie by the Wachowski brothers inevitably brings about visions of extremely modern gadgetry and hi-tech computers, with monitors displaying stuff that may as well have been Latin (and perhaps it actually is). Far from it being so, V For Vendetta ends up giving you more of a reality check that you would probably expect from a commercial movie.
Set in the year 2020, the film shows a world that is nothing like what we know of today. But it does mention that the US is extinct, which in itself for several is good enough reason to keep watching the movie.