Stink-oh

Rating: 4/10 (9 March 2009)

Right now, the only graphic novel that's made it successfully to the screen--for me--is "Road to Perdition." "Watchmen" has very little energy and that's reserved for the soundtrack. Visually, it's dull and cheesy with action sequences so derivative that they pass without notice.
The plot is one of those things you do sitting around when you're stoned and you think it's all funny and relevant and really smart. The next morning, you replay the tape recorder and you wonder what you were thinking. Oh, you forgot, you were loaded.
I sat there wondering, "What the hell are these people talking about?" The make-up is so retrograde that I wondered why did they even bother to make someone "kinda" look like Richard Nixon.
Whatever this is, I wished I would have skipped it. Even the Imax format didn't jazz it up any.