Brilliant ,dark brilliance

Rating: 10/10 (10 July 2009)

A lot of bad reviews have been published about this movie.The people who didn't get the movie and the people who liked the comic and hated anyone who would dare make a film of this.
Ignore them all ,the film has a large ensemble cast and unlike x men actually does all the characters justice,rorsach - possibly psychotic obsessed, vigilante .Night owl,still morning "the keene act" and the hero life he used to have. Silk-Spectre pushed into the hero life by her pushy hero mom. Ozymandias - proclaimed smartest man on earth has turned from hero to business man. A hero is killed and this starts the investigation into a conspiracy surrounding the watchmen.Rorschach tries to enlist the help of the only true superpowered man,dr Manhattan and his former partner,night owl, and is rebuffed .
One of the amazing things about the movie is the realistic world they have created ,a world in which Nixon is a five term president the cold war has accelerated and the world hangs on the brink of nuclear annihilation. All this functions as the back drop to the investigation which eventually draws some of the team back together. The film excels with dealing with moral grey areas and the decay of society in general.Overall the watchmen is about sacrifice and the greater good, can their be a greater good if the smaller goods get trampled on? Do the ends justify the means? This film intelligently asks the questions and invites the audience to form their own opinion rather than force some cheesy moral down their throat