Prime candidate for MST3000

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 2009)

I can count on the fingers of one hand the movies I actually walked out of they were so bad. Watchmen is now among that very exclusive list.
This movie was so bad, the entire time I was envisioning watching it from the peanut gallery of Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Two hours into the movie, neither of us had a clue what was going on or what the plot was. Let's see...there was a tall, creepy blue guy who appeared naked in half of his scenes, and wore a banana hammock the other half. A few random sex scenes that I might have simply fast-forwarded to had this been an evening alone with the DVD player. A few decent action scenes that I wanted to revel in, but couldn't, because I didn't care about the outcome of the action. Leaving the movie at that point was exiting the stock market after it has already taken a dive -- disappointing, but better to realize a loss than wait for it to hit bottom.
Incidentally, I have not read (or even heard of) the comic book -- and I shouldn't have to. A movie should have at least SOME standalone entertainment value, regardless of what it was adapted from.