Watchmen (2009)
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 162m
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino
Synopsis:
In an alternative 1985 Nixon is in his third term of office, rattling his sabre for the commencement of WW3, the Yanks really won in Vietnam thanks to the help of its own costumed superheroes known as Watchmen, but has since passed a law forbidding the vigilantes from operating, so reviled are they by criminal and citizenry alike. At the start of the movie someone murders one of the former Watchmen and Rorschach, a sociopathic member of the elite group, determines to find out who is setting out to neutralize them all.
Review:
Intricately plotted, interestingly scored variation on the X Men (at least in layman's terms): the titles alone feature a montage of snapshots in the careers of the Watchmen up to the present guaranteed to confuse and put off all but the most initiated or die-hard fans of this sort of thing. There follows at great length all sorts of mayhem, skullduggery and genre-bending heroics, and the occasional interlude that can only be described as rhapsodic. It's certainly more adult than the Batmans of this world, and those have grown dark enough, but it is not without finesse and a touch of poetry. What is also clear, given the three and four-hour versions in existence, is that considerable time and effort have gone into making it; whether you consider it well spent will depend on your attitude to graphic novels.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 162m
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino
Synopsis:
In an alternative 1985 Nixon is in his third term of office, rattling his sabre for the commencement of WW3, the Yanks really won in Vietnam thanks to the help of its own costumed superheroes known as Watchmen, but has since passed a law forbidding the vigilantes from operating, so reviled are they by criminal and citizenry alike. At the start of the movie someone murders one of the former Watchmen and Rorschach, a sociopathic member of the elite group, determines to find out who is setting out to neutralize them all.
Review:
Intricately plotted, interestingly scored variation on the X Men (at least in layman's terms): the titles alone feature a montage of snapshots in the careers of the Watchmen up to the present guaranteed to confuse and put off all but the most initiated or die-hard fans of this sort of thing. There follows at great length all sorts of mayhem, skullduggery and genre-bending heroics, and the occasional interlude that can only be described as rhapsodic. It's certainly more adult than the Batmans of this world, and those have grown dark enough, but it is not without finesse and a touch of poetry. What is also clear, given the three and four-hour versions in existence, is that considerable time and effort have gone into making it; whether you consider it well spent will depend on your attitude to graphic novels.
Country: US
Technical: Technicolor/2.35:1 162m
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino
Synopsis:
In an alternative 1985 Nixon is in his third term of office, rattling his sabre for the commencement of WW3, the Yanks really won in Vietnam thanks to the help of its own costumed superheroes known as Watchmen, but has since passed a law forbidding the vigilantes from operating, so reviled are they by criminal and citizenry alike. At the start of the movie someone murders one of the former Watchmen and Rorschach, a sociopathic member of the elite group, determines to find out who is setting out to neutralize them all.
Review:
Intricately plotted, interestingly scored variation on the X Men (at least in layman's terms): the titles alone feature a montage of snapshots in the careers of the Watchmen up to the present guaranteed to confuse and put off all but the most initiated or die-hard fans of this sort of thing. There follows at great length all sorts of mayhem, skullduggery and genre-bending heroics, and the occasional interlude that can only be described as rhapsodic. It's certainly more adult than the Batmans of this world, and those have grown dark enough, but it is not without finesse and a touch of poetry. What is also clear, given the three and four-hour versions in existence, is that considerable time and effort have gone into making it; whether you consider it well spent will depend on your attitude to graphic novels.