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Amazon.co.uk Review
Everybody’s favourite graphic novel comes to the screen (after years of rumours and false starts), less a roaring work of adaptation than a respectful and faithful take on a radical original. Watchmen is set in the mid-1980s, a time of increased nuclear tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, as Richard Nixon is enjoying his fifth term as president and the world’s superheroes have been forcibly retired. (As you can probably tell, the mix of authentic history and alternate reality is heady.) Things begin with a bang: the mysterious high-rise murder of the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a masked hero with a checkered past, puts the rest of the retired superhero community on alert. The credits sequence, a series of tableaux that wittily catches us up on crime-fighting backstory, actually turns out to be the high point of the movie. Thereafter we meet the other caped and hooded avengers: the furious Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), the inexp (more…)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding adaptation of outstanding book
There are a lot of very mixed and very long reviews on this one, so I’ll keep mine short.
If you like movies, superhero movies, comics or the Watchmen graphic novel…
4.0 out of 5 stars
the masonic meaning,
anyone with a small brain can follow the hidden meanings.you dont have to be a sci fi fan to be interstead in hollywood showing u the truth.
5.0 out of 5 stars
AHHHH… QUIT YER BELLYACHING!
The mundanes are upset because they were expecting dudes in capes flying around and saving the day. They just “don’t get it”.
5.0 out of 5 stars
make up your own mind
I’m not gonna go into a long thesis about whats missing or whats right and whats wrong with this movie because I don’t write or direct movies I just enjoy watching them, I have…
1.0 out of 5 stars
1st Film I’ve walked out…
Nothing new here, mindless ‘X-Men’ type characters trying to appeal to the creepy geeks. Me and my girlfriend gave this a go at the local cinema, got bored after 15 mins…
4.0 out of 5 stars
I watch the Watchmen
Who watches the Watchmen? Well, I did, for one. And do you know what? I was thoroughly impressed at what I saw.
4.0 out of 5 stars
who watches the watchmen?
who watches the watchmen? lots of people if the response to this very enjoyable and dark superhero movie is anything to go by.
5.0 out of 5 stars
not your average superhero movie
now i loved the comic book of watchmen mainly becuase you can read it 20 times and still see something new (try to find all the hidden smileys if you can)and the movie bar a few…
1.0 out of 5 stars
Watchmen for Idiots
They have cynically and shockingly taken out all the philosophical elements of the novel. I still cannot decide if this dumbing down was a deliberate effort on the part of the…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Look upon Alan Moore’s genius, ye mighty, and despair!
Being a comics collector, I usually attend new superhero movies on the
opening night, but I have a bit of a strained relationship with the
Watchmen comic.