Watchmen finally makes it to the big screen, but was it what the fans were hoping for?

Rating: 7/10 (7 March 2009)

By now pretty much everyone knows the story of Watchmen and also the story behind the making of this film, so I feel no need to retread old ground, what is most important here is whether or not the film was a good film. Sad to say that while Watchmen started out with a ton of promise, towards the middle half of the film it begins to fizzle out and become a film full of some simply put obscure artistic choices.
Watchmen, which was directed by Zack Snyder, is first and foremost a well made film, there is no denying that, but where the film finds its problems is in the odd artistic choices made. The film began with an uber serious tone in which I was digging, but towards the middle of the film it began to become almost an obscure comedy that just made no sense with the tone in which they had established so early on in the film. For this reason alone, Watchmen never seemed to recover for me. Even still with this nitpick I found a lot to enjoy with the film.
It was as I said well done as a whole, where at certain spots the cinematography and production design stole the show. As well the heavy thematic material of the graphic novel is still as relevant in its film counterpart as it was on the page. So what's the final verdict?
Watchmen overall is an entertaining film that is worth seeing, but was short of true superhero film greatness due to some just obscure artistic choices.
I give Watchmen a slightly disappointing 7 out of 10!