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Rating: 10/10 (3 October 2018)

With this movie, i discovered nordic beauty, Malin.. But this one is much more!
Watchmen isn't only the imaginative plot coming from the mind of Ozymandias, it is in addition a lot of thoughts, a touch of symbolism, a brilliant study of "super-heros", all this coming from the mind of Alan Moore.
For one time, the story is unchanged from the comic to the movie: there isn't any rethinking "à la" Fantastic Four. All the ideas that Moore wanted to address are found: the "politics" of super-heroes, their sexuality, their drive to do the "good". The cast is excellent and really looks alike their paper characters. Thus, the panels come alive, more powerful than ever with the movie language: close-up, traveling, sound, especially songs.
In Imax, you are so close of the drama that you live such unforgettable moments: for the JFK assassination, I thought that Jackie was really swimming in a pool of blood; at the burial of the comedian, seeing the WTC with the "sound of silence" was really moving. Unlike Spidey who was too shy to face the truth (erasing the WTC is erasing its memory!), having it in the background in a movie about massive destruction is very symbolic.
The final twist is amazing and really motivates me to read the comics again...