why so much of melodrama??

Rating: 6/10 (1 April 2009)

While the movie starts off very well and also the Alternative past, where Nixon is serving his 3rd term and other similar elements do build the atmosphere extremely well. However movie wanders along aimlessly along the stories of each members of Watchmen. After a while you start to wonder whats the story about? Most of the scenes look like being there just for sake of their individual beauty and contributing absolutely nothing to move the story forward. In the end i was extremely bored of going through the individual stories, where director tries to forcibly build characters in a very short time and push unnecessary emotions and melodrama. However this effort falls flat as there is no enough time for building each character to feel anything for them or those scenes.
Movie tries in vain to give justice to the each member of the watchmen group, giving them some screen space. But however in a movie of 130 minutes, its almost impossible to do so. What remains in the end is individual stories unrelated at most times and zero significance for the plot, which to me seemed great to build an interesting movie.
So positives: Visuals are great. not all as some look extremely tacky with below average special effects. Atmosphere in the movie is stunning. So is the music, which helps a great deal to keep everything together.
I definitely expected the movie to be a lot better than it is.