Very original presentation of an ambitious but inconsistent story.

Rating: 8/10 (1 August 2009)

Suppose you see a rarely good comic-based movie like Watchmen, would you directly wish it make it to the top 250? I did, but I only give it an 8 for its inconsistency.
I am not professional and it didn't take a professor in cinema to appreciate the efforts they put in this movie. The film's nostalgic style were flowing everywhere and saturated the heroes' stories and memories as well. The first 1hr 30 minutes in the extended version was so unforgivably good that everyone in the Watchmen team were as much explored and the story went on to make sense. Fighting sequences reflected the style they did in 300, which blends Matrix in a comics context, where the slums/country musics/Beatles all catch you and shock you. Cameras always assure you of the subtlety behind those funny suits, which gave me a totally different feeling than the trailer, which I mush criticize on. The public of course are willing to see another comic hero movie with all those funny suits. That must have been the publisher's idea. However, Watchmen is not about fist-fighting, it's about history changing people. So if the trailer could be a bit more nostalgic and dramatically-implying, the movie would make a lot more money. It's too dark but I am sure you can handle that after The Dark Knight.
What I meant by inconsistency, is not as severe as those movies like Punisher the war-zone or so. The problem is the forced-up climax and conclusion. It's a little forced for all the audiences to see the real motives of Ozimandias and to accept his holocaust treatment that supposedly solved the conflicts between Soviet Union and USA. The message "who will watch the watchmen" was beautifully delivered with the experience of all the superheroes portrayed, but fell short of realistic touch, which was like a gem in the first half. To show the difference between Rorschach and Night-owl, the director intentionally killed Rorschach using Dr. Manhattan. This is to show how the powerful people bend the worldly rules, which even worked for a semi-god like Dr. Manhattan. Still this could be very rigid that Dr. Manhattan's motives would seem manipulated. Yet, Ozymandias was too confident in making all the moves and all the watchmen in the final scene became like retarded-men who didn't think twice. Rorschach's journal should be a good lead for a sequel but the scale, the spectacular and the phenomenon will need much more efforts...... Again, Laurie Jupiter/Silk Spectre II wasn't explored enough and the audiences didn't feel much of her feeling knowing the Comedian was her father or so, which makes the ending even more ridiculous.
Well, the director was talented, some scenes, specially those tragic moments were most memorable. However, the inconsistency should really be fixed by more patience.
Anyway, I liked it. 8/10