Excellent adaptation of an excellent graphic novel

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2009)

I had mixed expectations going into this film - I loved the original comic series but really wasn't a fan of Jack Snyders previous film 300. Fortunately here he has a done a much better job! Maybe its just that the source was better or maybe the script was superior, whatever the reason Watchmen is a brilliant faithful version of what I read 20+ years ago.
I was particularly impressed with how he captured the darkness of the story, the good guys are all flawed and the film doesn't flinch from showing us just how bad some of them are. Seeing the violence in the film is a lot more visceral than the comic but fits perfectly with the theme of the story.
If you want a dark and twisted take on what hooded vigilantes and a real superman would mean to the world then this is it.