Yummy self-important dialogues and numbing gore.

Rating: 2/10 (11 April 2009)

I grew up a fan of most superhero comics. Now I enjoy a costumed hero movie from time to time. The Watchmen were not in my repertoire so I was curious about it. Compared with the recent burst of superhero movies, this movie was interesting in it's use of a darker, historical revisionist propaganda look with a gay-fetish twist.
But interesting does not necessarily mean entertaining. It's similar to when you are dragged through the museum of the tedious and you finally see something interesting but then you want to scream and run out for the doors. The looks of this flick where cool, but that was not sufficient to carry this piece into the entertainment category. Numerous segments were tedious. For example: The constant use of self-referencing flashbacks. Another example? The over-cool, "we are so self-important" and humorless dialogues. Another example? The useless scenes of torture and gore. Another one? The constant use of internal jargon. The cherry on this intriguingly stale cake? The character called "The Comedian" was about as unfunny as they get. OK enough already.
If you like movies that are self-important, disjointed and gory, this is for you. Personally, I wouldn't watch it even on video and feel it was an utter and total waste of time.