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Rating: 8/10 (7 March 2009)

I saw the prescreening on Tuesday night in Minnesota with about 400 other excited viewers. The scene was quite a spectacle. As this film is an adaptation of a highly followed graphic novel there is a lot of pressure for Watchmen to adhere to its roots and for the most part it has done a very good job doing so. In regard to the integrity of original characters, plot, action and point of view. The exception being the a few original characters left out and a different ending. We need to remember this is an adaptation not a remake and this adaptation is in a different medium and is trying to reach a larger more broad audience so naturally, there are going to be differences. This difference(s) become amplified if you are expecting very precise mold of the original.
What I found to be a curious parallel between the graphic novel and its film counter part is, in the graphic novel a large message or concern is the growing desensitization of the public to sex and violence. The interesting part is that the film "Watchmen" holds so much violence and sex that is it actually serving as one of the instruments that desensitizes Americans today.
In all, this film has wonderful cinematography, great action, brilliant special effects, and a good story. So if you can put down you Watchmen novel and not over compare the two so closely, this film should raise dialog and and conversation prove to be highly entertaining -