A dark, unexpected and profound experience

Rating: Null/10 (23 July 2014)

I started watching this movie without even having heard of Watchmen. I expected this to be like the many other comic book/graphic novel movies I had seen, it certainly wasn't, it was certainly the deepest and longest I had seen.
An hour into the movie I was wondering if anything was going to happen, then I saw that there was still another 2 hours to go! At around the 1 hour mark, things do begin to speed up. I think the movie could have been an hour shorter if it wasn't for all the drawn-out, slow-motion scenes.
I had a bit of a love/hate experience with this film, there were times when I was really enjoying it, and times when I wasn't. All-in-all, it was a good movie - some level intelligence is needed to fully appreciate it though.
The only thing that confused me was the fact that Matthew Goode's accent starts off being American and ends off being some weird British/Russian/American mix.