Watchmen

Watchmen has created a lot of debate. Is it good, bad, faithful to the book, alienating to audience members who don't know anything about it. Well, let's take a look. Watchmen is a superhero film directed by Zack Snyder. It's based of the graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. Watchmen takes place in an alternate 1985 where Richard Nixon has been elected for his third term and masked vigilantes have been outlawed. One of the vigilantes, the Comedian, has been murdered from his apartment. Rorscach investigates the murder to figure out what's going on. The Comedian's backstory is revealed thoughout the film. Meanwhile, USA and the Soviet Union are on the brink of nuclear war. USA believes Dr. Manhatton, who is the only vigilante who actually has superpowers, can ease the tensions between the two nations. Dr. Manhatton gets help from Ozymandias, known to be the smartest man in the world and has revealed his identity to the public. Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre II also make up the rest of the "watchmen".

I have not read the graphic novel, but the plot was really interesting. The flashbacks could have been done a little bit better, but still.. it's a very good plot for a superhero film. It has a Great cast and for the most part the actors did a good job. Jackie Earl Haley as Rorschach was fantastic. Jeffrey Dean Morgan did a geat job at portraying the insane Comedian. Malin Akerman was the weakest actor of the whole film, she wasn't terrible, but here potrayel as Silk Spectre II just wasn't satisfying enough .

The visual and special effects however were outstanding for this film. A minor negative for this film was the slo-mo camera work. It seems like Mr. Snyder likes to use slo-mo every 15 minutes, and it just didn't seem necessary. Also, I wish people would shut up about Mr. Manhatton's dong, yes it's big, yes it's blue and is very unpleasent to look at, but remember, this a very dark film that's based off a supposingly very graphic novel, so anyone seeing this movie should be mature enough to handle it, Overall, This film was okay, There could have been more action scenes and it was a little too long, only by 20 or 30 minutes or so. Watchmen is my second favorite DC Superhero film, The Dark Knight is still my favorite, but this comes pretty close. So if it's still playing, I'd say go check it out.