Went from interesting...to bland...to a raised eye brow ..to why bother? possible spoilers

Rating: 6/10 (9 March 2009)

OK let me get this off the bat, I've never read the GN...i had heard about it. I knew from the get go that this movie was going to be story driven, it's just a shame the story held no interest at all for someone who isn't familiar with the GN.
Directed by Zack Snyder who did the enjoyable 300 has tried his hardest to out do his last film, but in my opinion has drowned in the complicated story arcs.
The acting isn't bad, all performance were strong for the material they had to work with. The visual flare didn't click with me, 300 looked amazing (even if after an hour it got repetitive to look at) This movie claims to be visually original, but honestly i couldn't even pick it, most scenes looked like any other drama movie.
There is action, but unfortunately they suffer from repetition and are nothing that has been seen before (Most of the action scenes are broken up also, consistently change back and forth between characters that really slows the pace. e.g silk spectre 2 and night owls alley way gang brawl, good fighting, decent gore but unfortunately undone by the shifting between the fight and Dr. Manhattan's press interview.
A lot of the character development is serverly under developed and by the end of the movie it felt like half of them had done nothing at all.
A lot of people will love this movie (But mostly fans of the GN), people who aren't familiar with it like myself might find it a tad confusing.
The movie is far too long running at almost 3hrs, and it is very stop and start story and action wise. This is successful to some degree tho as the most, Graphic comic/GN movie filmed, but unfortunately a lot will be repelled by a lot of the subject matter, which ranges from, Rape, Murder, to pedophiles, too frequent CGI nudity and sex scenes.
I can't help but feel Zack Snyder wasn't having much fun with this movie, and if it was a little less story and more Turn your brain off (like 300) it would be a lot more appealing.
To close, Not by any means the worst movie....just too target selected and not filmed to appeal to a broader audience.