Eric Brainard
almost 2 years
ago
Dark & beautiful but could've used more from the source. Done in volumes like LotR or KB?
Jean Walton
over 2 years
ago
One of the best in the genre still suffers from excess and silliness-unlike the book.
Dónal Kennedy
almost 3 years
ago
Visual feast, peerless adaptation, knockout cast, brilliant story. A++
pessimist
almost 4 years
ago
What a terrible and soulless adaptation. Shows no affection for the original material.
Noah Rymer
almost 5 years
ago
A frat boy adaptation of a deep and powerful book, a watchable disappointment.
Guy Meltzer
5 years
ago
felt exactly like the comic book. good vibe. great cinematography.
Tony Gandía
5 years
ago
Unwatchable. Stylish wasted opportunity; Snyder mishandles substantive source material
Nat Voisey
over 5 years
ago
One of my fav action superhero movies. The themes and the overall feel are amazing!
Chloe Weber
almost 6 years
ago
I loved it...until the ending. The ending was appalling
Mathias Eek
almost 6 years
ago
A great and emotional movie, with a nice noir touch! One of the best in the genre!
J.H. Howes
over 6 years
ago
A comic book movie w/ heart instead of just raw action, "Watchmen" is beautiful and sad.
Justin L. Clemons
over 6 years
ago
The backstory of Superheroes are always a great point of view. Very intense.
Kyle Birrer
almost 7 years
ago
Loved it to death, never read comics but now I feel I must
Mikhail Amyn
7 years
ago
Didn't get it the first time, read the comic, rewatched this, loved it.
Nino D
7 years
ago
Never read the comics, probably won't. Great movie, very interesting universe/ characters
Zach Sly
7 years
ago
Good movie, very stylistic; but for some reason fell far short of the source material.
Joe Brown
over 7 years
ago
What if superheroes were real?
Fae
over 7 years
ago
Great movie; made me want to read the graphic novel.
Watchmen is a 2009 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the comic book of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The film is set in an alternate history 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as a group of mostly retired vigilantes investigates an apparent conspiracy against them and uncovers something even more grandiose and sinister.
Following publication of the Watchmen comic, a live-action film adaptation was mired in development hell. Producer Lawrence Gordon began developing the project at 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. (parent company of Watchmen publisher DC Comics) with producer Joel Silver and director Terry Gilliam, the latter eventually deeming the complex novel "unfilmable". During the 2000s, Gordon and Lloyd Levin collaborated with Universal Studios and Paramount...