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Watchmen

2009

Zack Snyder

Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson, Billy Crudup ...

6.8

78,464

Fantasy. Action. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Drama It's the 1980's and it's a different world. Superheroes have been outlawed, the only ones still in operation under direct control of the United States government. Suddenly, those heroes both still in action and retired find themselves targets by an unseen enemy, who wants to kill them one by one. A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It’s a compelling visceral film — sound, images and characters combined into a decidedly odd visual experience that evokes the feel of a graphic novel (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] stumbles and sometimes falls on its top-heavy ambitions. But there are also flashes of visual brilliance and performances (...) that drill deep into the novel's haunted soul (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"Forgettable after opening blast. (...) is nowhere near the caliber of the Spider-Man movies or "The Dark Knight." It may have more style, but it's only a jot more entertaining than "Catwoman." (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)."	NEU
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"A mesmerising and brutalising experience, and will be, for some at least, more than worth the wait (...) A movie that is reaching utterly beyond the confines of its genre."	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Okay, it isn’t the graphic novel, but Zack Snyder clearly gives a toss, creating a smart, stylish, decent adaptation, if low on accessibility for the non-convert (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Steve Anglesey Mirror	"It's searing, spectacular and simply unmissable. (...) It looks amazing."	POS
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Snyder and writers David Hayter and Alex Tse never find a reason for those unfamiliar with the graphic novel to care about any of this nonsense. (...) Even the digital effects are ho-hum."	NEG
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"'Watchmen' is less a fully realized comicbook epic than a sturdy feat of dramatic compression (...) [A] slavishly faithful adaptation."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There are dull moments and moments of inspiration (...) It is dizzy, crazy and quite sexy - when it's not being self-indulgent and pointless (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Jim Vejvoda IGN	"A well-intentioned but frustrating adaptation (...) A film where the parts are greater than the picture as a whole"	NEU

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