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Watchmen
Release Date: March 6, 2009 | Runtime: 2 hr. 43 min.
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In an alternate 1985 America, costumed superheroes are part of everyday life. When one of his former comrades is murdered, masked vigilante Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) uncovers a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his retired associates, only one of which has true powers, Rorschach glimpses a far-reaching conspiracy involving their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the world's future.
Cast: Billy Crudup as "Jon Osterman/Dr. Manhattan" Malin Akerman as "Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre II" Jackie Earle Haley as "Walter Kovacs/Rorschach" Matthew Goode as "Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias" Patrick Wilson as "Dan Dreiberg/Nite Owl II" Jeffrey Dean Morgan as "Edward Blake/The Comedian" Carla Gugino as "Sally Jupiter/Silk Spectre" Matt Frewer as "Moloch" Stephen McHattie as "Hollis Mason" Laura Mennell as "Janey Slater" Rob LaBelle as "Wally Weaver" Robert Wisden as "Richard Nixon" Gary Houston as "John McLaughlin" James Michael Connor as "Pat Buchanan" Mary Ann Burger as "Eleanor Clift" Jerry Wasserman as "Detective Fine" Don Thompson as "Detective Gallagher" Frank Novak as "Henry Kissinger"
Director: Zack Snyder
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Reviews
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metacritic.com 9 months ago
Zack Snyder brings the ultimate graphic novel to the big screen. [Rated R]
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Hollywood.com 9 months ago
A stunning, mind-bending, breathtaking, densely packed motion picture experience you may want to see again the minute it ends -- if you can figure it all out.
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Rotten Tomatoes 9 months ago
Gritty and visually striking, Watchmen is a faithful adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, but its complex narrative structure may make it difficult for it to appeal to viewers not already familiar with the source material.
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ComingSoon.net 9 months ago
It's not the best super hero movie ever made, but taken on its own, it's good. Snyder and company might not have made it to the bleachers, but at least they aimed for them, and there is certainly virtue in that.
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TheMovieBoy.com 9 months ago
(2 Stars/Out of 4) - Opens Thursday at Midnight - "Watchmen" is just about as uneven as a movie can get, singular moments of dizzying brilliance arriving amidst an unfocused, lugubrious narrative and pacing that would make a turtle's crawl appear speedy. The outcome, then, is a visionary motion picture more ambitious than successful.
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Cinema Blend 9 months ago
Theres a lot of audience excitement going into IWatchmenI, and not a lot of places for it to go once the movie starts. Apart from a few dark zingers from Rorschach and a handful of slo-mo high kicks, theres no real action or comedy that allows for audience release. Zack Snyder has brought us into the theater in order to contemplate dark things and big thoughts, but unlike Christopher Nolan before him, hes not throwing in a Mack truck flip to thrill us while were there.
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ComingSoon.net 9 months ago
Zack Snyder delivers a good adaptation of the revered graphic novel. The strong, relatively unknown cast really brings the characters to life. Beautiful production design, effects, and costumes also are impressive.
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ComingSoon.net 9 months ago
Zack Snyder's attempt at being faithful to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' vision is ultimately the film's biggest fault since it makes the flaws in the original source material far more obvious.
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Cinema Blend 9 months ago
To me it wouldnt have mattered if it were bad or good. More important in a IWatchmenI movie is that its ambitious. That it tries to say something, to be something, even if it implodes amidst the struggle to achieve it. Better a spectacular failure than miserable, lukewarm mediocrity. Alan Moores amazing comic deserves, and gets better than tepid tap water dripped out of Hollywoods rusty faucet. As a movie IWatchmenI is every bit as risky and edgy as it ought to be.
