Good but not great

Rating: 7/10 (7 March 2009)

Visually stunning, with entire scenes that seem to jump out of the comic book. (It WAS a comic book people, it was not a graphic novel.) The casting most excellent,Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach, Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan and Patrick Wilson as Night Owl being particularly good. The only weak acting, (Or choice in acting) seems to come from Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, with him being portrayed in a far less heroic fashion, and more like a really arrogant big businessman.
I enjoyed the look of the film, and entire great sequences are brought to life, sometimes even better than the original source material.
I was however, left very cold by the ending. I will not ruin it here, but lets just say that it comes completely out of left field, with no clues or signs of its arrival. In the comic, every single issue had clues leading to why what was happening, was happening. In this movie it is just thrown out there, without any real attempt to build a mystery about it.
I am a huge fan of the original comics. I still own my original 12 bought back in 1986. This movie is a good attempt to try to bring that comic to the screen. Its not perfect, but well worth watching, especially for long time fans.