Watchmen

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  • Opened March 6, 2009 
  • 2 hr 43 min
  • R | strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language
  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • 300's Zack Snyder adapts Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' acclaimed comic book Watchmen for the big screen. Set in an alternate universe circa 1985, the film's world is an unstable one where a nuclear war is imminent between America and Russia. Superheroes have been forced to go into retirement due to the government's Keene Act, but the death of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), an ex-hero commando, perks the interest of one of the country's last remaining superheroes, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). Full synopsis

  • Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
  • Director: Zack Snyder
  • Genres: Action/Adventure

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Watchmen

by Doomspark

Short review: the best part of the movie was the ride home afterwards. This movie makes no sense unless you've read the book. In fact, it assumes that you have read the book because it makes no...

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Watching the Watchmen

by Betty Kane

This is the movie comic book fans have been waiting for for decades, and not because it adapts one of the best graphic novels ever written but because it is the comic book movie that treats it's...

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Watchmen Movie Review

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70 out of 100 Entertanining but long superhero graphic tale....

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

Part conscious and part unconscious, Watchmen tells us of a world without hope and then makes us wonder if we're already living in it. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

This movie will shake your windows and rattle your walls. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

Even Watchmen fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay THIS faithful to a comic book. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Ty Burr

The best moments in Watchmen, then, work as delirious music-videos. Read full review

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A scene from "Watchmen."