American legends

Rating: 7/10 (14 March 2009)

I have read the comic book when at school and in an enthusiastic manner shared it with a friend- which did not share my enthusiasm finding the characters and especially the Jupiter mother miserable. Reading a comic book of this character is a private and intense experience therefore I admit that when I saw the movie and realized how much it has been reviewed and analyzed, I was disappointed feeling that I had lost the pleasure of an arcane and introspective experience.
Cleverly the director has an extensive introductory sequence which explains a lot of the environment and personal histories of the characters and thus partially solves the problem of presenting the information that in the comic book is offered in the form of text, such as newspaper articles or diary entries. Otherwise as far as I remember, except some cuts the graphic novel is followed closely in plot and dialogue. Some of the violent scenes have aesthetic elements closely reminding Sin City.
I have to note that I found the dialogue between Mr. Manhattan and Silver Spectre 2 on Mars rather embarrassing, since I thought that those were far two weighty and perhaps pretentious stuff to share with a movie audience.
Rorsarch was a character played well since he is a plausible yet twisted human being with religious yearnings- not so accurately portrayed in the movie as in the graphic novel- and a troubled childhood. He is also very strong physically but still within human conception, unlike the Olympian Ozymandias or the impossible Dr. Manhattan.
This movie has brought forward early memories in me and I am trying to remember out of memory the parts of the graphic novel left out from he filmic production.
Still I believe that the most impressive sequence is the introductory one which is I think mainly the creation of the director.