Watchmen

    Watchmen
    2009

    Synopsis

    In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

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    Cast

    • Malin ÅkermanLaurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre II
    • Patrick WilsonDan Dreiberg / Nite Owl II
    • Billy CrudupJon Osterman / Dr. Manhattan
    • Matthew GoodeAdrian Veidt / Ozymandias
    • Jackie Earle HaleyWalter Kovacs / Rorschach
    • Jeffrey Dean MorganEdward Blake / The Comedian
    • Carla GuginoSally Jupiter / Silk Spectre
    • Laura MennellJaney Slater
    • Matt FrewerEdgar Jacobi / Moloch the Mystic
    • Stephen McHattieHollis Mason / Nite Owl

    Recommendations

    • 100

      New York Post

      Director Zack Snyder's cerebral, scintillating follow-up to "300" seems, to even a weary filmgoer's eye, as fresh and magnificent in sound and vision as "2001" must have seemed in 1968, yet in its eagerness to argue with itself, it resembles "A Clockwork Orange."
    • 80

      Empire

      Okay, it isn't the graphic novel, but Zack Snyder clearly gives a toss, creating a smart, stylish, decent adaptation, if low on accessibility for the non-convert.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      Even Watchmen fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay THIS faithful to a comic book.
    • 63

      ReelViews

      For the Watchmen fan, this may be as close to the Holy Grail as a motion picture could come. For everyone else, a sense of frustration and disappointment is not unwarranted. Watchmen is many things but it is not the Next Great Comic Book Movie or the film that will advance graphic novel adaptations to the next level.
    • 50

      Variety

      The movie is ultimately undone by its own reverence; there's simply no room for these characters and stories to breathe of their own accord, and even the most fastidiously replicated scenes can feel glib and truncated.
    • 50

      Village Voice

      Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor total triumph. In filming David Hayter and Alex Tse's adaptation of the most ambitious superhero comic book ever written, director Zack Snyder has managed to address the cult while pandering to the masses.
    • 40

      Newsweek

      Speaking as an admirer, but not an apostle, of the graphic novel, I thought the Watchmen movie was confusing, maddeningly inconsistent and fighting a long, losing battle to establish an identity of its own.
    • 30

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      This kind of reverence kills what it seeks to preserve. The movie is embalmed.

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