One of the most boring movies I have seen in a while!

Rating: 1/10 (7 March 2009)

Innocently believing in the hype, and excited by an interesting-looking trailer, I watched "Watchmen" last night at an IMAX theatre. My expectation was that I would be seeing something that is similar to "The Dark Knight" in terms of plot lines, powerful imagery, and acting - boy was I wrong! I will give it to you straight: the movie is almost 3 hours long, and has hardly any plot to speak of! Both my girl-friend and I vented our anger about this fact after the screening, and decided that even if it had been a 90-min movie, the plot would not have been able to sustain it.
It will sound hardly believe, but there is actually nothing happening in the movie. That's what makes it so tricky to review it. It is a constant and never-ending series of meaningless dialogues between superheros (although most of them are only martial arts specialists and nothing else), indulging in extreme amounts of self-pity. After about 30 minutes I was hoping that the action the trailer had promised me would start... after 2 hours, my brain was screaming at me to leave the cinema, and when the end credits rolled over the big screen, I realised that I had just been robbed of the hefty entry fee, and 3 hours of my life I couldn't get back. It amazes me how much emotional baggage these people in their stupid costumes can carry around with them. And the "twist" at the end of the movie is absolutely ridiculous and screams of illogical mistakes.
Acting was very mediocre, with a computer-animated "Doctor Manhattan" probably being the best one among them. The dialogues were about as brain-dead as in "Casino Royale" (only that that movie at least had action to sustain it), and the logical mistakes in all this were mind-boggling.
I know that you will hear a lot of positive things about "Watchmen", mainly from overweight people who wear their hair in unwashed pony-tails, or puberty-stricken skateboard boys who just see it for the sporadic scenes of unnecessary nudity and violence. Do NOT believe them. "Watchmen" is a very bad movie, and I am one of the few people who have the guts to say it! Heed my advice and don't waste 3 hours of your life, there has to be something better you can do with your time.