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Rating: 1/10 (19 April 2009)

I'm a big Alan Moore fan. I re-read Watchmen right before the movie came out and, yet, I lowered my expectations. Even with the lowered expectations, Zack Snyder seemed to do little with the material. It is as if he just pasted the comic in the pre-production room and said, "We don't need a script or a storyboard". The film doesn't create the swirling mass of humanity that crushes against individuality...IMHO, a very important element for the Watchmen's development and banishment. Zack leaves out so much of the contextualization that I wonder if he really understands anything of the historical back drop the comic was set against? I do understand after the studio's success with "300" their willingness to give him a huge budget, but $150 million? Isn't that excessive?