After a second view, it just grows on you

Rating: 9/10 (15 February 2010)

Watchmen has some fresh material that no comic book adaptation dared, so a kind of revolution, but there are some problems in it that make the movie a hard and less entertaining experience. In other words, it is related to you. It is like if your viewpoint about cinema, comic books or super heroes is the same with Alan Moore, Watchmen will be your movie, but if you are interested in rather cinema, entertainment, then it will turn into a hard experience. Mostly, the development of the events makes the movie less engaging, gripping and less entertaining. Visually, Watchmen is very well, dark, but at the same time colorful, some images are dazzling, the plot is astonishing, because inventive and smart, but somehow, there is lack of impressive material (except for Rorschach?) I don't know why, but Watchmen recalls me Sin City, another revolution in cinema. I have not read the comic book of Watchmen yet, but as the people said, the movie is very loyal to the comic book, even some of them say the most loyal adaptation so far. As for the innovations, in Watchmen, super heroes are not as pure as snow, especially The Comedian and Dr. Manhattan. One kills or hurts innocent people and enjoy doing that, the other does not care about humanity and he kills innocent people either. This is also the first movie which we see toys of some super heroes which is good. The movie has some social and political subtexts, it has some great one- liners... A corrupt and decayed world, life and death, a little philosophy, Watchmen has all those and more, but somehow it leaves a "funny" taste in your mouth. It seems that some critics and the people who are like Alan Moore don't complain about lack of action or lack of tension or slight entertainment etc. but the poster, the characters, the story prepare you for action and excitement, but the comic book is not about that, so by the loyalty of Snyder, we see a different movie than we had expected. By the way, the movie has some action, don't get me wrong. However, also there are some bizarre and raw violent scenes which I have no idea about. Good news for the people who like such kind of stuff, but that scene which they fight a group of gang was too much! Very luckily, there are not many slow motion shots in Watchmen in comparison with 300, Snyder uses the camera greatly here. By the way, I did not complain about the sex scene at all, unbelievably, many people talk about this and say it was awful, bizarre. It was just a scene, not good, not bad, if you ask me. Yes, as some people think too, the character who 'shoulders' the movie was Rorschach, he has become my favorite character from the movie. A sort of, he recalls Sin City's Marv also. His adventures, his "face", a very interesting character from the world of Watchmen. The other characters, especially Dr. Manhattan are interesting too, but Rorschsach was like the only character gets the movie move. However, these are not the things that the fans of the comic book want to discuss (remember, it changes according to what you are interested in) The parts he appears are the most appealing parts of the movie. There are some further problems either. Patrick Wilson is one of the most weird choices for that character or why they used plastic make up for Nixon? I haven't seen, but Frank Langella would be very good. The parts that take place in the huge station/base were uninspiring and a bit cliché and also recently we saw a similar one in Hellboy II. Despite all these things, I appreciate Snyder, because he is an auteur, he has his own style, he is not one of those "incumbent directors".