Slightly worrying and nasty

Rating: 8/10 (6 May 2009)

Once the protectors of the citizens on the run down and dirty streets, now themselves threatened by scandals and darker forces that want to eradicate them. They are watchmen. They are in a danger greater than any danger that ever threatened the people they swore to protect, and they are unwatched, except by themselves. Times are dark, crimes are running wild and the citizens have learned to distrust these former heroes.
Based on a graphic novella this film is very different from what people may think it to be after watching the trailers - the trailers show what seems to be a more or less mindless science fiction action flick that has little worth thinking about. This film proves to be a lot better than just that. In fact, this film might be classed as a drama in a science fiction surrounding. A lot is done to work out the different characters and some of them come of the screen very well. My personal favorite would be Rorschach who depicts the classical warped mind that has gone beyond all borders of normality, living in his own world with his own rules. There is a great deal of special effects in this film but none of them work against the film - they add to the story in the good way. I have never read the novella so I don't know how well the conversion was done, but from what I heard it isn't too bad of a conversion. For me this film could have done a small bit better by working out the characters some further still, and the ending story is a little too much of a classic cliché. Still, worth a watch.
8 out of 10 fallen heroes