movie title: WATCHMEN
starring: BILLY CRUDUP, PATRICK WILSON
director: Zack Snyder
genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Drama
release date: March 6, 2009
Synopsis
Watchmen based on DC Comics of the same title are superheroes retired from crime fighting. It's 1985 and the world is fearful of nuclear war between US and the Soviet Union. Story begins when one of the Watchmen "The Comedian" murdered and fear of other Watchmen murders to follow.
Watchmen are not all sci-fi eventhough graphics and make-up are exquisitely done. Romance and drama between Dr. Manhattan (Crudup), The Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and Night Owl (Wilson) brings life to comic-book-turned-real-life graphics movie.
Highlights
- The Silk Spectre and Dr. Manhattan's trip to Mars
- Awesome graphics of Dr. Manhattan transformation
- Night Owl's gadgets ~ look-out for "Archie"
- Amazing make-up & set
Lowlights
- Nudity ~ was never a fan of women & men nude scenes, however, after a while you will forget that Dr. Manhattan's tool has been exposed almost the entire movie
- Violence ~ graphically portrayed
TO LOVE or NOT TO LOVE
If you're a fan of the comic book, then I know you're thrilled that this graphic novel with it's distinct colorful, almost impossible to re-create graphics is gracing the big screen. If you're not a fan but loves movies - hit the theaters now running unneccessary. SO-SO
