DAMMIT...So close yet so far away

Rating: 6/10 (7 March 2009)

They said it couldn't be done... They said it was couldn't be filmed... They said it would be a disaster...
...They were right
OK maybe thats a little unfair but I'm unashamedly biased towards the book. It was one of the first comics I read when it came out (I still have the original 12 comics) and as I've grown up with it more over the years I've come to appreciate it more and more. This film isn't a total loss however. The portrayal of the Comedian and Ozymandias are first rate and the feel of the film borrows a lot from 300 which isn't a bad thing, but sadly the bad outweighs the good... Silk Spectre and Dr Manhattan are flat and uninteresting and the pace is so fast that if you blink you miss major plot lines...
Not a total write off but disappointing from a die hard fan of the book