Terrible, forced, over rated, predictable, boring: it sucked big time

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2009)

I got the whole super hero theme etc, the contrasting personalities blah blah, yet it did nothing for me. Shortly into the movie we're given a mystery murder, and it all pretty much develops from there as the rest of the super heroes wonder who could have killed the 'Comedian', someone portrayed as a character of immense strength. And after we're introduced to all the characters I found it obvious that it's one of them who killed him (or organised it, whatever) and who's plotting against them, and shortly after you realise it's the Ozymandias fellow who's behind it all, since they stupidly leave him out of the movie for some scenes and this is where we're expected to be 'lost' in the ensuing scenes. Terrible ending, and a lot of awful scenes.
I didn't initially plan on seeing this film, since I was over the whole comic book to film adaptation, yet after hearing from a number of friends that the movie was quite good, I decided to see it. So going in I didn't expect too much (since the hype did put me off a bit), I assumed it would be average and the beginning started off alright. Yet very soon it quickly became clear to me that Watchmen was going to be a waste of time, plus money.
I don't know where to start to talk about it's many faults, there were too many. It just turned out to be a huge disappointment and what annoyed me even more, after it finished, was thinking back to all the hype this movie generated, the high ratings on IMDb, the position it got in the top 250, just all the ooh's I heard from many, I couldn't see what was so fantastic about it. It is the worst film I have ever seen and it makes me so angry to see potentially good films forced into something they can never be.