Left the Cinema So Disappointed!

Rating: 6/10 (19 March 2009)

Firstly, what everyone needs to do is to stop comparing this to the graphic novel, as Zack Snyder said himself this film was more for people who hadn't read the novel rather than those who had. I myself haven't read the novel yet, i was going to but opted to see the film first so that my experience wasn't tainted by trying to refer back to the novel as others have done. So i feel i can write an unbiased review based solely on the film! Here are a few points of where i felt the film went wrong! The film never shows the watchmen as the watchmen, except for the group picture, the film never shows you the watchmen at their height working together fighting crime and subsequently doesn't show why the people turned on the them? The tag-lines of 'who watches the watchmen' really intrigued me and it was something that wasn't explored.
Every scene lacked emotion, when New York was destroyed and 15 million people died i didn't care, when Rosarch was splattered all over the snow i didn't care, when Night Owl and the Silk Spectre where getting it on i didn't care, when Dr Manhattan retreated to mars i didn't care and when America reached Deafcon 1 and Nixon was about to destroy the world i actually couldn't have cared less. It was all done so nonchalant, it seemed as if there was more emphasis and attention paid to the unimportant parts of the film rather than the bigger picture. When spectre and Manhattan are on mars and the camera pulls away to reveal a smiley face i thought surely this cant be the end but then again i actually don't really care! The movie is slow and sluggish, painfully moving from one scene to another, for a 2 1/2 hour film they crammed it full of unnecessary crap and left out explaining or elaborating on certain parts of the story.
For a film that was meant to reflect the emotional turmoil and darkness thats in us all and at the end of the day these superheroes where just human i felt that the film lacked any depth whatsoever.
The plot was so linear and the SHOCKER that ozymandias was in fact a villain failed to keep me from nodding off never mind keep me on the edge of my seat.
I was so looking forward to this film i watched the trailer a dozen times and read all i could about it on the net. In the end i was left very disappointed, i thought it was going to be a film to rival the dark knight but it just isn't, cinematography wise it ticks all the boxes but in terms of the plot, character building and emotion it fails miserably.