Watchmen is the Blade Runner of Superhero Movies!

Rating: 9/10 (13 July 2017)

Watchmen is one of the most underrated superhero movies to come out in the 2000s. It's the somewhat beloved, somewhat hated, somewhat misunderstood adaptation of the classic graphic novel of the same name. It's a Zack Snyder film, so unfortunately its reception was destined to be divisive among the public. But what he achieved here was remarkable: actually taking the Watchmen comic, a graphic novel long thought to be 'unfilmable', and making a comprehensive movie out of it.
The movie is very faithful to the comic, but sometimes it can come across as being a little TOO faithful at times. It's great seeing the classic story finally getting the film treatment it deserves but there's only select creative-liberties Snyder decided to go with. The ending is a little different from the book, and Ozymandias' design is a parody of the infamous Bat-nipple-suit from Batman and Robin. Besides these changes, it's still very watchable and the pacing is on-point here.
Bottomline: if you're a superhero buff, give this one a shot.