'Watchmen' is a movie that leaves you, "WOW!"

Rating: 10/10 (7 March 2009)

"Watchmen" is the first movie of 2009 that will leave you at awe. It's visually stunning, well acted all around, terrific direction by Zack Snyder, and overall pleasing to see & experience. Now, for the geek critique stuff. Yes, there's NO squid ending, but this new ending works in more ways than you could possibly imagine. It truly is an incredible ending, and frankly I wish Alan Moore thought of it. It ties everything together about human nature and why we're a race that wants nothing more than control. Also, there is no murder of Hollis Mason, but from what I read it will appear in the Directors Cut. No, Black Freighter, saw that coming when the movie was being made, lucky for us, it comes out on DVD in a couple of weeks and will intertwine in the "Ultimate Directors Cut". I guess the 2 little things that erk'd me were the following, the old age make up (wasn't too convincing) and second, Matthew Goode as Ozzy. He just came off too much like a douche. I don't know, anyway, overall the movie is Astounding! It gets a solid A grade! As a manic fan of the graphic novel, the movie was pretty much a great adaptation and I don't think anyone else could've done it better, way to go Zack Snyder!