I didn't know comics are supposed to be boring

Rating: 2/10 (16 March 2009)

My husband and I watched "Watchmen" yesterday. The film can be described in the best way using his words: "It all started really well, didn't it?". It did start really well but it ended as a most boring adaptation of a graphic novel I have seen. Hours and hours of the screen time were spent in monotone dialogues and monologues of infinite importance that were read at you by actors who seemed to be obviously thinking about their dinner arrangements whilst reading.
The story itself is taken from an 80s graphic novel and taken literally, so this means that it is much more misogynistic, homophobic and disability-insensitive than the stories you are used to seeing on your screen. Consider the story of a woman who falls in love with her rapist, then deliberately conceives a child with him and who of course, forgives the rapist because he gave her a child. To add, the only person of colour that I have noticed in the film was a prisoner meeting his death through a deep burn by the use of deep frying pan in the hand of Rorschach.
Some of the special effects were really good, but I have to note that when you see a person being annihilated in a fire or a force to particles for the first time it might come as an interesting special effect. But when you see this very same effect done several times though the movie it might start to be getting old. More so, some of the special effects used in the film could be dated back to "Matrix".
The music score boasted by another over-use of L.Cohens "Halliluah" and an attempt to give credibility to the ending by the use Mozart's "Requiem".