A dazzling masterpiece!

Rating: 10/10 (11 March 2009)

Somewhere in New York City in the year 1985 in a alternate dimension, Richard Nixon is still president and superheroes have existed before they were outlawed for they were once mighty and proud. A former super soldier named The Comedian (Jeffery Dean Morgan) was brutally murdered mysteriously for he worked for a former superhero group called CrimeBusters as his friends Roschach (Jackie Earle Haley) who is a mysterious blank-faced masked avenger, Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) who is a blue-skinned nude god-like being. Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) who is a very sexy crime-fighting babe and the mysterious yet very smart NightOwl (Patrick Wilson) all join together to solve the case of the Comedian's death. They are also trying to find out who is also behind an upcoming government conspiracy that could cause World War III for they must find that perpetrator and stop him or her before it's too late.
Co-starring Matt Frewer, This is a brilliant adaptation of the ultimate graphic novel in Existence known as "Watchmen" from Alan Moore and David Gibbons including DC comics. After years of development hell since 1986, it seems Warner with Paramount and DC films have green-lighted the film in 2006 after Zack Sydner's "300" was a major success including an excellent adaptation of a graphic novel was signed on as director who was a big fan of the "Watchmen" graphic novel as he even studied it as storyboards for the film. The film does have the spirit of the comics's satire on politics and superheroes as it takes the audience into an alternate world unlike anyone has ever seen before since "The Matrix". The film is quite a complex yet provocative film just like the graphic novel but this superhero movie sure ain't one for kids cause this one is rated R for good reason folks due to some language, nudity, sexuality and graphic gory violence but more of a grown-up's superhero movie. Greg Cannom's make-up effects are just superb including the visual effects with action sequences, i think this is Zack Sydner's greatest motion picture yet and one of the true comic book to movie greats in recent memory.
Although the ending was changed, it doesn't matter cause i think this movie delivers some stuff that fans would crave. The acting was even solid too including the action, i give thanks to Zack Sydner and Co to bring the beloved graphic novel to the big screen in a successful way. I can't wait for the extended cut Blu-Ray which should rock and even make the movie be more better to some audiences.