Watchmen Reviews

The Warner Bros. film Watchmen, starring Patrick Wilson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup and Jackie Earle Haley, was released on March 6, 2009. Based on the graphic novel series of the same name, the film opened to mixed reviews.

Fans of the graphic novel were the most sensitive to any deviations from the original storyline that occcurred in the screen adaptation.http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/03/watchmen-epic-f.html

• "At 2-hours-plus, it's a long, noirish, misanthropic slog through the dank pop-culture dungeons of creator Alan Moore's min Moore and Gibbons' comic book was a dazzling feat of storytelling magic. Too often this movie suggests a hallucinogenic Halloween party hosted by the Village People. Grade: C+"—Boston HeraldBoston Herald: What a Long Strange Trip (March 6, 2009)

• "One could call bringing Watchmen to the big screen a thankless job. Sure, Watchmen is two-and-a-half hours of homage that too often lapses into camp and whose main theses are lost in gory translation, and time likely will not treat the movie as well as it has the comic. But if it brings more people to Moore and Gibbons' original, then mission accomplished."—WiredWired: Watchmen Review (March 5, 2009)

• Watchmen is set in the United States in the mid-1980s and is based on the U.S. and the Soviet Union facing off in the cold war. Rather than protecting mankind, the superheroes are forced to protect themselves while coping with the rising political tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.IMAX: Watchmen The IMAX Experience

• Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach/Walter Kovacs
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Comedian/Edward Blake
• Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan/Jon Osterman
• Patrick Wilson as Nite Owl/Dan Dreiberg
• Matthew Goode as Ozymandias/Adrian Veidt
• Malin Akerman as Silk Spectre II/Laurie Jupiter
• Carla Gugino as Silk Spectre/Sally Jupiter

• Boston Herald: What a Long, Strange Trip (March 6, 2009)

• Wired: Review: Watchmen Actors Trumped by Awesome Visuals (March 5, 2009)

• LA Times: Video Review: Watchmen (March 5, 2009)

• Comic Book Movie: Watchmen Movie Review (March 4, 2009)

• Time: Watchmen Review: Moments (a Few) of Greatness (March 4, 2009)

• NBC.com: Gene Shalit Reviews Watchmen (Time: 2:26)

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