Watchmen is a movie. And it's a comic book, or in a more haughty phrase, a graphic novel. It's one hell of film though.

It's an adaptation of one of the most revered comic books. It sticks to it very much. There's a lot of talking. Not much action which is funny for a comic book movie. Yet, it was trying to capture what the comic book was all about.

Who was a hero? Rorschach, looking for the killer, but is too indebted to his honor system and world of good-bad, black-white, is done pretty well. The Comedian is plenty fascistic. The Night Owl finds himself grows from sad sack to kick ass. Dr. Manhattan and his blue organ blow shit up. Silk Spectre is pretty bad ass herself. Ozymandias is effeminate and cruel.

It's a good movie I'll admit, but I am a geek at heart.

The music was incongruous. It got in the way because it wasn't period.

4 of 5 stars.

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