Its okay, drags second half, worth seeing though.

Rating: 7/10 (8 March 2009)

I never bothered reading the comics, back in the day--and though they're readily available, after seeing this, not sure if I want to. I liked the sheer volume of talent, money and detail that went into this productions-Rorschach, Owl and Comedian come off the best by far. Manhattan-well he's sorta the Silver Surfer, the Vietnam parts of this w/ him worked well. Some of the cast looked lost-Malin Akerman is getting razzed for her performance, I thought she was OK but brought nothing much besides a long set of legs to the role to be honest-and to be fair Matthew Goode as Ozzy was a joke. I thought his CGI Kat in fact gave a better performance.
(The less said about the Seriously goofy Nixon/Kissinger stuff, makeup, etc-the better. What the-?! spend some money to fix that guys--) Main problem w/ the movie is that it's slow and overlong, esp in the second half. You get the plot line down and know the characters fine-but expecting them to actually DO something besides letting nukes go off all over the world at the end-well...that's a disappointment to say the least.
Yes I'm aware of the alien squid from the comic. That-would have been just as bad.
So what am I saying? if you liked the GN, see it, if you liked 300 or Bats II: Dark Nitey--see it, if you liked Iron Man, see it-but remember Both Bats II and Iron Man were far better.
*** outta **** jest because.