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Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode
When an ex-superhero is murdered, a vigilante named Rorshach begins an investigation into the murder, which begins to lead to a much more terrifying conclusion.
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Truly a powerful superhero movie that's darker than "The Dark Knight" and more thrilling than any other superhero movie in recent memory.
The long anticipated movie version of Alan Moore's classic graphic novel is nothing less than a new reference work about how close and true to the source a movie can be. I dunno how people who haven't read the graphic novel will digest all this, but having read it almost two year...( read more)
I was not half as impressed by this film as I felt I should have been. The first hour or so was too incoherent and anyway I think there was enough material to turn this into two separate films instead of this one huge chunk of a movie.
Based on the Alan Moore graphic novel, Watchmen is set in an alternate reality where costumed "heroes" were created as state sanctioned vigilantes to fight the mob and who helped the US win the Vietnam war and get tricky Dicky elected for 5 successive terms as president. Another ...( read more)
I have to say I knew nothing of the Watchmen graphic novel before seeing the film. Overall it's a very interesting film with a good, dark and violent story. This has more in common with Sin city than Superman if you are not sure what to expect. Yes it's slightly long at two and a...( read more)
After reading the graphic novel over 20 years ago, I literally dreamed of the day that it would be possible to to be made into a movie. I was most definitely not disappointed. Superbly cast with characters that seem to literally jump from the pages. Great music score.
Very noir, with an intriguing plotline. However, some sideplots detract from the overall movie.
Way too long and way too much information in a single movie for someone not familiar with the characters/stories... It looked good enough, but was confusing at times.
The most anticipated film of 2009, kind of works, but there is to much to cover here and kind of falls short.
um, what the f-ck? I've had watchmen comic books and it wasn't this depressing. superhero movies is supposed to be fun, y'know, escape from reality. this one is just a big glass of WTF. I'd rather have the comic book version, at least there's less dead people in tight overalls an...( read more)
