Brilliant Movie

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2009)

I've never read the Watchmen comics, so I don't know how the movie compares... but the movie was excellent. It's 1985, Nixon is still president, prostitution is legal, and the USA won Vietnam. I completely fell in love with this alternate 1985 universe, a world where they face their problems. As for the reason the movie was made, the plot, it was well written and the actors did a great job. Great underlying message in the end too, and the movie has a punchline that would make Heath Ledger's Joker jealous.
DO NOT TAKE THE KIDS TO GO SEE THIS, there are some very graphic sex scenes and extreme gore scenes. They don't dominate the movie, but they are a part of it.
I'm not the kind of person who likes a movie just because it's "gore drenched" or because it's "sexy", or even "action-packed". This movie could easily fulfill all of those criteria for anyone who does love that stuff while still satisfying the plot mongers like myself. I'm tempted to go see it again.