I knew I shouldn't have watched it.

Rating: 1/10 (18 April 2015)

Okay, unlike a lot of the other negative reviews, I had read the graphic novel many times in my childhood. My dad was a very good friend of Alan Moore in their younger days and as a boy I was always captivated by one specific book on my Dads books-shelves of various books. Obviously, I was attracted to the eye-catching images of blood trickling down the book and mysterious masked people on the cover. After reading the book, I'd fallen in love. My dad, being a friend of Alan Moore, had loads of his work such as Swamp Thing, From Hell, Killing Joke e.t.c but my Dad told me he always loved telling Alan that his two oldest children (me and my sis) would always read his Watchmen book (despite us being too young and this did shock Alan that we both liked it). I remember my Dad telling me Warner Bros royally screwed Alan over by taking the rights to his material and making movies out of them. BOY, WAS HE RIGHT? The minute I heard a Watchmen movie was being made, both my Dad and I (and Alan too) knew it'd be crap. You'd think going in with low expectations would make the film better, right? Nope! It was as awful as I knew it would be. My fave character in the book was Rorschach. He had this atmosphere and rawness about his character in the book I'd never seen before. I'd have cast someone like Guy Pearce to play him. Someone who could pull that cold hard stare while delivering frightening dialogue. For me, Jackie Earl Healey came across more like Jonny Rotten from The Sex Pistols. Malin Ackerman was AWWWWFUL. The fight scenes were silly and ruined the original tone. Also, the guy cast for Ozymandius did not have that annoyingly Aryan chiselled good looks. They cast some average looking schmuck for him. I watched the film out of pure love of Alan Moores work. I bet he himself has not even laid eyes on this visual trash and I hope he never does.