You don't have to be a comic fan to like this!

Rating: 9/10 (23 June 2011)

I have read that if you're not already a fan of the comic book, you won't like the movie. I have never heard of the comic, I never had any interest in comics, and have never owned a comic. But I liked this movie.
This is far from a typical comic story that are so prevalent today. There is very gritty violence, interesting, dark characters, real emotions, and great effects as well as quite a complex story. What I suppose impressed me the most is that these super heroes weren't really heroes at all. Most of them were more like villains, and their powers were, with the exception of Dr. Manhattan, rather unremarkable. Most of them seemed to have pretty impressive, slightly inhuman strength, or speed, but beyond that, they were just people in your typical superhero outfits.
Dr. Manhattan was refreshing in that having incredible, unbelievable powers, he had totally lost his touch on human reality and actually said that living and dead matter were really no different since they were structurally the same. Awesome example of weirdness there.
I saw it more as an alternative super hero story than the x-men, spiderman type stories, and I like it a lot more because of it.