Awesome

Rating: 7/10 (6 September 2009)

I think the best praise I can give the Watchmen is that I came away feeling as though I'd watched something very different. Super hero movies were in a funk: Spidrman was played awfully safe, Batman has been turned into a stuffy bore, the less said about X-Men the better - the world needed The Watchmen! It has relevance and topicality, intelligence as well as action and the soundtrack kicks all ass. So why not a 10? Well although it is a very faithful adaptation, I think it could have been even more so and I'm greatly looking forward to the directors cut. I'd previously read about the sex scenes, and though I didn't find them to be completely unnecessary, they just didn't fit the tone and as such they do seem a little 'wrong'. Minor gripes aside, The Watchmen is all over fantastic!