Very good.

Rating: 8/10 (10 March 2009)

Superhero fans are not a united front. We all have different tastes of what we like in superhero movies. Some of us want a lot of action and a half hour battle at the end, some just want the scenes and the characters to look cool, some want a solid story. Because of this, it's not too much of a surprise to find such different in opinions about this film where paying attention to the plot is so important.
Compared to the graphic novel, this film stands well. While most movies I grumble about things left out, for this one I was surprised about how much made it in! Really, for the other commenters who claim to have read Watchmen and still think this was still terrible, I wonder if they read any of the words next to the pretty pictures. With very few bumps this movie covers the entire plot rather well.
As a stand alone movie for the people who haven't picked up Watchmen, it also holds its own very well - but you have to pay attention. If you're the sort who wants to just watch what's on the screen and not think much about the plot, then this movie isn't for you - and neither is the graphic novel, probably.