You have seen superheros like this before.

Rating: 1/10 (13 March 2009)

In comic books an unarmed man can take out a dozen guys armed with m-16s with the aid of super powers. In this movie, one of the main character's only superpower is a mask that makes changing inkblot designs. And how does he take out the dozen guys with M-16s? With a can of Aqua Net and a lighter. And this entire movie was filled with one nonsensical scene after another just like that. Just think of a scene in the movie, and there are at least a dozen ways that that scene was BS.
For instance, why emphasize a mystery to who Silk Specter's father was, why not instead explain how a 90 pound chick can beat the crap out of 20 escaped convicts from death row during a prison riot? And these problems are not all just a problem with the director, its a problem with the comic book itself. Aqua-net taking out a swat team of guys with m-16s is a pivotal part of the comics, I saw a picture of the page its taken from.
The problem with the Watchmen is the story is comprised entirely of uninteresting superheros, faced with an uninteresting super-villain, and topped off with a uninteresting super-confrontation at the end. Dr. Manhattan builds a giant moving glass sphere on the surface of mars. Why? No reason. Smartest man in the world has a pet tiger with gazelle horns. Where did this creature come from? No explanation. Did this monster attack any of the superheros? No. What was the point? There was none. Even in it's crude attempts to rewrite history were BS. Like Dr. Manhattan blowing up north vietnamese soldiers with a flick of his wrist. Couldn't we do that without a super hero's help in 1972 with our atomic bombs?
If this movie was so imaginative, where was the imagination? Scene with a second gunman at the grassy knoll = JFK. Scene with the president in the war room = Dr. Strangelove. Slow-motion of a guy flying out of a window in a highrise office building = Matrix 2. Dream sequence of an atomic bomb detonating and turning people into burning skeletons = Terminator 2. Blowing up New York and Moscow to prevent World War 3 = Failsafe. Dr. Manhattan = Blue Man Group meets The Crying Game.
The Tag-Line of this movie was "You have never seen superheros like this before," but everyone has. Night Owl = Batman. Ozymadeus = Lex Luthor. Dr. Manhattan = Superman. The Comedian = The Punisher. And Rorshack? All the guy had was a mask, a can of Aqua-Net, and a lighter.
Another tag-line is "Based on the best selling comic book of all time." Again, more BS. Everyone has heard of Batman, Spiderman and Superman too. Ask someone on the street who Ozymadeus is. Nobody knows, and it will stay this way.
This movie will be remembered as a disaster of a movie, worse then Daredevil and Elektra, except Watchmen had a bigger budget then the both of them combined.
The whole movie was a complete mess, based on an unimaginative story, filled with boring and easily forgotten characters, especially the Night Owl guy. That was the a main character of the movie, he had the most screen time, and the only thing the guy did was yell out "Noooo" when the Aqua-Net guy blew up, and that was in the commercial so you didn't even need to watch the movie to see the big conclusion.
THE END.