A Critic's Perspective

Rating: 6/10 (14 February 2011)

Watchmen.....
With an opening scene, being a cross between Blade runner, for the grit and instant realisation that the future or in this case, the past, is not the wonderful utopia we all dream for, and Matrix time delay, to intensify the action and drama of our reluctant hero being beaten to death, you hope that more is to come. Sigh
As expected the grit and the filth of this scene continues, along with 1hr of flash backs, and character building that becomes boring and elongated even for those who aren't aware of the characters before hand.
Being bored with this, your eye start looking for other entertainment, and you quickly notices, the similarities between "league of extraordinary men, eye candy" and the wide detailed landscape that becomes more interesting that the character that your meant to be watching.
Just as you start to realise that the plot hasn't really developed in too what you would consider worth buying the extra large popcorn for. A love story comes to light, only to be stop, due to lack of medical advances that we are now privity to in too day society.
With a couple of anti-climatic events before and after this one, I was left wondering what the whole fuss was about.
Was it because the acting was little under done, or the characters didn't really have much to do until the end of the movie?
Superhero movie?, No, but a movie that exercises it's political agenda via the interactions of 5 heavy weights that have been force to realise that they don't in fact have super powers, longing for "the old" days.
With some great real life, sets, and time relevant hardware, expect for the graphic display of the T.V in the opening scene. Watchmen lacks for me the intensity of the comic, and the desire to back the bad guy, which came through more in the graphic novel, that could have ever hope for in a movie.
Many of the fight scenes are put in place to prove not only to the retired characters but to the audience that they in fact as good as they think they are, but only to a point of dealing with real life situations. As the movie comes to an end, you realise, what should been totally obvious from the beginning that there are only two superhero's in the movie. A reluctant hero, and the megalomaniac villain backed by his own self worth of righteous.
This movie delivers everything it sets out to do, with enough entertainment and eye candy to stave off the boredom, for two and half hours of getting to know normal people, coming to grips of how bad our human race has become.
I grew up with these people in my life, they became everything to me. Superheros did everything I long to grow up and dreamt of achieving. Maybe with age you realise that superhero's don't really exist, only ordinary people wishing they could create world peace. In this case, these people do, but with sudden realisation, that "Be carefully what you wish for, because one day you might get it" and it may not be in the way you had dreamt.