Watchmen Without the Depth

Rating: 4/10 (8 November 2019)

Watchmen is based on a graphic novel and it's written by the comic book legend Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbson. For 20 years, Watchmen has been going through constant development, Terry Gilliam himself who worked and failed to bring Watchmen to the big screen, claiming the novel to be unfilmable. Until Warner Bros gave the rights to Zack Snyder, after the studio became impressed with his work on 300.
The story takes place in 1985 when one of the old and crime-fighting member named "The Comedian" was murdered by an unknown killer; when another member of the team named "Rorshach" discover this, he warns them and tells them that it could be a killer who's plotting revenge against them. The remaining members of the group are Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Dr. Manhattan, and Ozymandias.
Some of the cast did a alright job of their performance such as Jeffrey Dean Morgan as "The Comedian", Jackie Earle Haley as "Rorshach" I though the did a good betrayal of the character (even if he is edgy in this film), Patrick Wilson as "Nite Owl" was okay, and Billy Crudup as "Dr. Manhattan" which most found him boring, but to me, I felt that for the most part, it fits well to a character who's supposed to be stoic. Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre I felt her performance shallow and Matthew Goode as "Ozymandias" basically channeling his performance like Vincent Price.
The film has a dark, moody, & lofty weight to it that makes it feel unrealistic and the dialogue that is being used in the movie tends to sound like a speech rather than a conversation. The fight sequence that Snyder beings in the world of Watchmen are that not only do they know how to do kung-fu, but they also have super strength, mediocre CGI, bad aging makeup, and consent slow-motion that are being used without any epic weight that help carries the film.
Going through the whole movie (and yes I did watch the Director's Cut) I felt that the execution did not deliver the same way that the graphic novel did. I know that Snyder's plan was to make sure that the adoption stuck to the comic as possible. But even that can be the problem; because not only did Snyder represented Watchmen in this a hammy and pompous, but Snyder also doesn't get the idea of what Watchmen is about, actually bringing superheroes in the real world that has subversion and satire. So not only does the movie fail because it's inaccurate, it failed because it isolated the story of the novel and take off the depth that made the novel Watchmen so memorable back then and today.