Could have been better

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2019)

This definitely was far from JDM's usual roles and he definitely bombed it in a bad way. Good thing his character doesn't last long otherwise I'd be cringing throughout the entire film instead of his terrible scenes.
This movie is basically a bunch of subplots thrown together to form a nearly three hour movie. You can't really figure out what the main story is. You just have to connect it all together. Honestly, this would have been much better as a trilogy or even a TV series. The subplots were all red herrings that took away from the main story of the world being on the brink of annihilation.
I don't particularly care for the political, social, and amoral tone of the movie either but I understand the purpose of using it. The action scenes were pretty cool and short-lived. The film has romance and what appeared to be unintended or possibly intended dry comedy.
Anyways the Watchmen have been around for a long time with their roles being passed on from one political era to another or from one social generation to another. I'll let you interpret that, but either way they are supposed to be humanity's keepers until one of the watchmen goes rogue (or not depending on how you see it). You should definitely understand American exceptionalism and compare the Watchmen as operating within the culture of a police state, hence the whole Who is watching the watchmen tag you'll see early on.
There is a lot of symbolism in the film so I definitely recommend watching it more than once but the more you watch it the more your view of the film's quality will decrease because the plot is masterfully represented in a symbolic way but the screenwriting is so bad that you don't catch the actual story unless you watch it more than once or is a fan of the comics and understand the actual story.