A Strong Visual Adaptation of A Comic That Follows A New Trend of Superheroes

Rating: 9/10 (28 November 2010)

Now personally I have never read the Watchmen comics, being I was to young too and that i've never really been a comic lover. However this film adaption of the comic seems to me a very well done one, and follows like a few Marvel adaptations and also 300. Watchmen incorporates a new trend of superheroes and that is the torn, damaged, and very human superhero. Someone more realistic, and obviously does not have superpowers but does wield training and equipment that allows them to be heroes to the world.
Watchmen follows a different time line, and of course a parallel universe that sees the 1980's pan out a lot different to how they really did. Nixon is still in power, the stand-off between the USA and the Soviet Union is at a boiling point that is nuclear war on the horizon and obviously the end of the world. Afar from the plot of the film, I can greatly appreciate the amount of work, funding and scope given to this epic project. The cast was brilliant and worked well alongside each other on the screen, special effects were top notch and were not cheap looking in which would have made the film also feel cheap.
Zack Snyder has done a great job of adapting quite a great but difficult to adapt comic into a film, maybe to some its not what Watchmen should be but its certainly at least close to the truth. At over three hours long, you have to have the threshold of patience to really enjoy this film and open your mind to a new world in the film. For some this is a hard task to do, and for others its just impossible and so it is for the patient group of film goers to enjoy. If you persist its a worthy reward, a dazzling world parallel to our own and also shows us the deep seated fear and paranoia of the Cold War period. How everyone feared their neighbour was a Communist or Soviet sympathiser.
Its also to me, a new look at superheroes. Not those of the Marvel world who have powers and seem to always save the day, but everyday men and women who with training and equipment at their hands are able to at least try to stem crime and corruption. Watchmen is not for children obviously, and so its for a mature viewer with its content but also its scope. Watchmen makes a insightful film to watch, and also just one to let your mind open to on a Saturday night. Cast:9/10 Special Effects: 9/10