A visual masterpiece

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2011)

Every one in Hollywood considered the graphic novel Watchmen unfilmable. Zach Snyder who is well known for his visually impressive film 300 too the novel and made an impressive adaptation that far exceeded my expectations. Before seeing this movie, I had not read the graphic novel. After viewing, I bought it and compared. I was surprised at how thorough he had been. Watchmen is visually immersive, story and character driven with an amazing amount of SFX and VFX. The cast all around is fantabulous and no one does poorly. This movie also got the careers of a few actors going which doesn't surprise me. For anyone who is hesitant at watching this epic movie, just go in for Rorschach because man oh man is Jackie Earl Haley a great actor. He was my favorite character and I loved the way he moved and talked. The movie is set in an alternate world where certain things differ from ours and the city looks very dark and gritty. This is a very long film, however, it is required in order to do justice to the lengthy novel and all the characters inhabiting this world. The story is complex to the extent that you'll need to watch it a few times but that isn't a bad thing because it is a fun movie to watch in general.Snyder also uses plenty of slow motion in order to enhance the breath taking action and fighting scenes which are choreographed brilliantly. I really have no negatives for this movie because every time I watch it I get sucked into this fictionalized world and really invest in these very flawed but awesome characters.