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Original title

Watchmen

Year

2009

Running time

163 min.

Country

United States

Director

Zack Snyder

Screenwriter

Alex Tse, David Hayter. Graphic novel: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

Cast

Music

Tyler Bates

Cinematography

Larry Fong

Producer

Co-production United States-United Kingdom-Canada;

Warner Bros., Paramount Pictures, Legendary Pictures, DC Comics, Lawrence Gordon Productions. Producer: Deborah Snyder

Genre

Fantasy. Action. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Drama | Superheroes. Based on a Comic. DC Comics. Crime. 1980s. Cold War

Movie Groups

Watchmen | Alan Moore Adaptations | Dave Gibbons Adaptations

Synopsis

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 of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?

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Rankings Position

Awards: 2009: Saturn Awards: Best Costume, Best DVD Special Edition, Best Fantasy Film

2009: Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA: Nominated for Best Sound Editing

2009: Online Film Critics Society Awards: Nominated Best Sup. Actor (Jackie Earle Haley )

2009: SFX Awards, UK: Nominated Best Film & Best Director

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Critics' reviews

"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)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"[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)"

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone
"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)."

Claudia Puig: USA Today
"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."

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"'Watchmen' is less a fully realized comicbook epic than a sturdy feat of dramatic compression (...) [A] slavishly faithful adaptation."

Justin Chang: Variety
"A well-intentioned but frustrating adaptation (...) A film where the parts are greater than the picture as a whole"

Jim Vejvoda: IGN
"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."

Kevin Maher: The Times
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