The Best Watchmen Adaptation So Far.

Rating: 8/10 (10 December 2019)

The fundamental premise behind Moore's cult comic Watchmen is that nothing good ever happens.
A deeply cynical examination of power dynamics and oppression, the comics were previously called "unfilmable", not least because any attempt to make an adaptation required a huge budget, and the only likely source of such a budget woud be a major Hollywood studio - precisely the sort of powerful corporate entity despised in the Watchmen universe. Therefore, there is a deep irony that this film exists and that it is a wholly serviceable and compatible adaptation in regards the source material.
Besides being a worthy adaptation, the film is a modern action/drama classic. Genocide, rape, forgiveness, friendship, impotence, revenge, murder, extra-judicial killings, counter-culture, recidivism, the military industrial complex, the US Govt., class, the media, racism, corruption, betrayal, megalomania are all starkly on display.
The film is true to the source material because of its brutally honest cynicism played out using ridiculous costumes, deliberately over-the-top and earnest "superheroes" (just men and women, as weak and as vulnerable as the rest of us), while using the nature and magnificence of one single genuine superman/god to remind us of our inesecapable insignificance in the face of physics and the universe.
A peerless classic.