What the Zack?

Rating: 1/10 (2 April 2009)

This movie is a slap in the face for everybody who has read the comic book (which is genius by the way). Multiple critical points have been changed in this movie adaption which completely mutilate and deform the original story.
1. There are no "Watchmen". The masked heroes never refer to themselves as such. The movie strongly implies that the masked heroes formed a solid group called Watchmen, which is plain wrong. In fact you can see the scene where one of them tries to form a group and fails even in the movie.
2. Blaming the death of millions on Dr Manhattan in the end is completely ridiculous and unbelievable. The story is completely screwed up that way. No alliance of men can stop Jon, so there's no reason for peace. The ominous "Nothing ever ends." line by Jon is erased and shifted to Laurie (who does not! know what Jon would say, Jon is an enigma and nobody knows what he really thinks)
3. Rorschach doesn't speak like he is supposed to most of the time (which is enough to kill this movie for me without the other flaws), and the changes in his history/personality are made to make him look like more of a hero instead of the cold and pretty insane psycho he is in the comic. By the way, people speak other people's lines in this flick. You can tell what that does to characterization... it utterly screws it up!
4. The ending is plain wrong. Night Owl realized that Veigh was right in the comic, there is no cheeseburger with extra cheese "Nooooo" scream when Rorschach is killed and he doesn't beat up Veigh. Just horrible.
So, in summary, the original message and style of the comic is completely messed up, and when I realized after half of the movie this can't be saved, the rest was incredibly boring. Will not watch again, as the real Rorschach would say.
Of course, there is great attention to visual detail that can be commented on positively, but all in all this is a travesty and a disgrace.
Did I mention the terrible soundtrack?
Glad I didn't pay for it.
PS: I know this isn't a good review, but I'm just so angered by this trash I had to vent my anger.
PPS: passing this comment through the censorshit was unbelievably hard >:-(