mean, awful soap opera

Rating: 3/10 (9 March 2009)

This film is a mean film pretending to be a comic book movie. This long movie seems like it will never end. All of the characters become unlikable except for possibly Rorschack. This film is a violent soap opera. Obviously this fits into the hate America films completely. I will just mention a few of the bad points. The North Vietnamese are portrayed as victims of America and those scenes come straight out of the North Vietnamese propaganda films that the North Vietnamese released during the war. Of course, in real life, soon after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam, millions of people were slaughtered by the North Vietnamese. This movie may pretend to be conservative at moments but that will only affect those who do not know why they are conservative. The movie is anti everything to the core.
This film has scene after scene of having to look at one of the main characters naked. The other characters are mostly jerks. The film is unrelentingly depressing with not one moment of real action or adventure. The only action is just brutal gore. One unfortunate growing trend in some films is to show good guys with flaws. To basically say that good guys do not exist is to say that nothing really means anything. It is the opposite of what Americans have believed for centuries. It is a mental head game. In many ways it just celebrates darkness and makes everyone weaker. This film takes this to the utter extreme. These good guys are killers, rapists, impotent. or weird. It makes you want to run from the head games of this film. There is nothing real here. It is just one big dark head game. Stop the head games and get real.
The one good line comes from when one of the characters put into prison with convicts he was responsible for having arrested says "I am not trapped in here with them, they are trapped in here with me." One line in almost three hours of a boring violent, misleading, depressing and pointless film. This film is the opposite of The Dark Knight. That film had moments of darkness but was a good film. Watchman is dark with nothing else to it. Scene after scene of undressed people, love scenes, soap opera mentality, boredom, and moronic moments make this in my top twenty worst movies list.