Watchmen (2009)

My Rating: 70%

I've heard of how in the past, the graphic novel Watchmen was viewed impossible to make a movie out of. But of coarse they did, and while it's not the best thing based off a comic book, it's still a pretty decent movie.

Plot: In around the 1930's in a alternate timeline, the creation of super-heroes first began when criminals started causing crime dressed up as super-villains and so some policemen decided to do the same and became super-heroes. Decades later there became a new team of super-heroes called Watchmen. During that time, some of the Watchman fought in Vietnam and actually won the war. Later after that, President Richard Nixon is elected president for a third time. However by the time the 80's arrived, the Watchmen have been outlawed by the Congress. However, as some of the Watchmen have been living quietly, things begin to change when one of them, The Comedian, is murdered.

To me the whole story of Watchmen is very, very fascinating. It takes the general story of super-heroes and take it upside down and turns into a different story entirely. This film doesn't completely make it as great as it is, but to me it did its part just fine in bringing it to life.

Actors/Characters:
Malin Akerman/Laurie Juspeczyk-Silk Spectre: the funny ironic thing is that one of my friends, my kindergarten buddy Jordan is a fan of Watchman. And when I saw this film, i thought Silk Spectre looked like her (at least with the eyes and the cheeks I would often say) but she actually hates Malin Akerman's performance as Silk Spectre. But in my opinion, while Akerman doesn't make her as serious as she is in the comics, she did alright with her part all around.
Patrick Wilson/Dan Dreiberg-Nite Owl: eh, I thought he did a nice job of making Nite Owl as he is.
Billy Crudup/Dr. Manhattan: In all fairness, Crudup did a really good job in playing Dr. Manhattan. But that also made him an unlikable character. Mainly in the extent of how he really doesn't care what happens to anyone or anything, and the way Dr. Manhattan was acting like he was in his own world or how he goes from a stoneless face and quit voice to getting really angry when he told the news people and journalists to leave him alone, they made him more like someone who has a form of Autism or Asperger's Syndrome rather than this guy who has turned into this complete mystical being in a sense.
Matthew Goode/Adrian Veidt-Ozymandias: I thought he was fine. did just what he was suppose to do.
Jackie Earle Haley/Rorschach: He was simply the best character in both the book and the movie. He was dark type of super-hero who is described by Nite Owl as "tactically brilliant, and unpredictable". There is no Watchman without Rorschach and they did a really good job with him in this film.

Music: i really didn't care for the music. It was that entertaining. especially not that different version of "Hallelujah".

Editing: Mostly it was fine. However I really feel that they should have deleted the scene where Silk Spectre and Nite Owl do it. That was dumb.

and that is my review for Watchmen.