Faultless

Rating: 10/10 (22 April 2009)

Let's get this out of the way now - Watchmen the movie is better than the graphic novel. And I know I'm going to be slated for daring to say it. But in my defence I have to add I first read the graphic novel twenty years ago and have been a very big fan ever since.
The characterisation was absolutely spot on for all the major players and a great deal of attention went into capturing the essence of each and even surpassing this in some cases. One of those cases being the greatest character of them all: Rorschach. Jackie Earle Haley was absolutely superb in the role and utterly convinced as the flawed anti-hero whose every action was a the worn like a bloody heart on his sleeve. Billy Crudrup was perfect as the understated big blue giant, Malin Akerman's Silk Spectre was just as I imagined her from the page, even down to the perfect look, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan's Comedian did a fantastic job showing us the depth of possibly the deepest character in the whole film and almost pulled off some pity for the man too. Add to all of this excellent cinematography, pace, direction and not forgetting the soundtrack you have a film I cannot fault.