Being Long Is The Least Of Its Problems....

Rating: 5/10 (7 March 2009)

Zack Snyder did nothing wrong in this one. Great visionary direction again. In anything other than directing and/or special effects the movie fails on every level. The worst of it is the writing and the job that screenwriters did or maybe is not totally their fault because they tried to stay true to the graphic novel, and maybe It was not written on a very sophisticated or cohesive level in the first place. Dialogues are unwitty but they pretend to be saying something philosophical about human nature or current situation in the States; if you want current situation in the states watch V for Vendetta which cannot be even compared with this Watchmen nonsense. Acting was also not sharp, "The Comedian" was the only one who was actually acting and had a charm to his character, but other people were probably too lazy to act since they were often hidden by superhero costumes or maybe they were just not into that movie as most rational people would be. The girl was really bad, how and who cast her, i have no idea. I went to see this movie after being totally amused by the art and breakthrough in cinematography that "300" was able to accomplish in big part of Snyder's direction. Here he tries, but he cannot save this 3 hour torture flick (3 hours in a packed theatre with limited access to the bathroom) and the most interesting part is that the music director who provided such incredible music for "300" was probably too depressed or not into it that he chose the most boring soundtrack you could imagine. The fight sequences are good, maybe a bit too brutal, but entertaining enough to say that they were not bad. ( Be prepared for a 4 hour unrated DVD version with all even-more-brutal fight scenes footage) The length of the film is ridiculous, but as i said it was the least of its problems, if the movie was 90 minutes long, maybe it would play out better. In conclusion, if you are "watchmen" graphic novel fanatic or "star wars" junkie its your kind of material, if you neither, went in to see Znyder's continuation of "300" visionary art, educated, have knowledge of movie industry and simply wanted to see an intelligent work of visionary movie making, no such luck here, please come again. :)