Watchmen (2009) Movie Review

Visually appealing with a biting storyline and gripping plots and twists seem to describe this movie the best.

The glue to the movie seems to be Silk Spectre a.k.a. Laurie Jupiter (played by Malin Akerman). You don't realize that she seems to be the focal point of the movie as it switches between her, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) and the Night Owl (Patrick Wilson); however, the movie is heavily narrated by Rorschach's journal entries. Again, I have to reiterate; it doesn't stay on one particular character for very long.

I have had friends say that the movie had no ups and downs, flat if you will, but I found it highly innuendoes. The conversations and on-screen drama and chemistry between the actors and actresses give a very full and complete cinematic experience. I'm sure they spent a whole lot of money on the props, soundtrack and lighting as well; all in all, it just seemed they paid a lot of attention to the fillers that make up a graphic novel turned movie alongside the music, timing, acting and location that a 'normal' movie requires. With the advent of digital manipulation, it brings the comic superheroes to life.

The similarity in the movie-making techniques of "Watchmen" and "300" are sometimes so alike that you would not be able to tell them apart if they were not set in times so different (the noise and grain coupled with the sometimes super enlarged pores of actors face's in "300" make a second appearance in "Watchmen").

"Watchmen" is also targeted for more mature audiences than for "300". Expect bucketloads of blood, half a dozen of bone damage related incidents and a super long sex scene. Watch it for its quick story changes and bouncing back and forth perspectives from each of the characters and just for a generally well thought of, clean and well-made movie.