Who watches the watchmen? Not me.

Rating: 1/10 (5 June 2009)

Compared to the comic title, this movie would do without the graphic novel. The surprises and suspense from the dramatic scenes are simply not there. The real world, the arms race, controversy and blame over the cold war portrayed by the media is not there either. The dialogue between Mr. Manhattan and Ozymandias confuse me to pieces. Who is who? And why are the most important, and philosophical conversations between the two missing? As if to keep away the mysteries of the universe portrayed in the comic. On some bright sides, I see that the characters like Silk Spectre, Nightowl (eg sex and romance without the romance), Comedian and some other characters are of comic likeness. Rorschach is the only reason to watch the movie because of its comic accuracy though. And why blatantly nuke a bunch of random people without telling them why? People with no background or synopsis to the story> Practically skipping the whole 'genetically engineered psycho-virus' thing. The outlandish music and the portrayal of the 70s aren't really on par with the comic since it took place in the 80s. A dark setting, civilization's bleak outlook masked for it would be too hard to portray generations of civilization and its achievements on screen without a cast of a few thousand people. I mean come on Superheroes using superpowers (lacking emotion, and empathy to say the least), beating people up, and saving lives when in the comic it is clearly told that Dr. Manhattan is the only one with actual powers save the irrelevant dream-like sequences being added. And again with the computer generated images. Sticks out like a sore thumb. I guess it had to be done to the cat but I mean costume? At the high point of anyone's lifetime we suffer and feel like any fragile creature would and Alan Moore took advantage of that.....the movie shows it wasn't that easy, Pure eye candy. The end.