![]() ![]() ![]() Or, "I'm not even sure what universe he's seeing these days." So, when she says things like, "I hate it when Jon teleports me," it simply strikes one as absurd. Malin Akerman is appealing, but she is not yet a particularly good actor. The unfortunate performers are obliged to repeat numerous silly lines. This is the sort of film in which, as the production notes assert breathlessly, "From New York to Mars, plots and conspiracies are unfolding with the fate of all life on earth suspended in the hands of a few." New York to Mars, no less. Whoever is to blame, the original authors or the screenwriters and director, this is very poor stuff. Events hurtle toward a cataclysmic conclusion. ![]() They begin to suspect that their former comrade, Ozymandias, Adrian Veidt (Matthew Goode), "the world's smartest man" and the director of a giant conglomerate, may be involved. Nite Owl II and Rorschach set about solving The Comedian's murder, which leads them to a far greater conspiracy. The only one of the Watchmen who remains on the job (wearing masks has been made illegal by Congress), Walter Kovacs, or Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), a nasty, vicious vigilante, who continues to hunt society's "vermin," suspects someone might be "picking off costumed heroes." He contacts Nite Owl II, Dan Dreiberg (Patrick Wilson), who has retired to a comfortable existence.ĭreiberg will eventually return to the anti-crime front in the company of Silk Spectre II, Laurie Jupiter (Malin Akerman), Dr. Richard Nixon (Robert Wisden) remains president after several re-elections, and the US and the Soviet Union are edging ever closer to mutually annihilating nuclear war.Ī holdover from the first group of crimefighters, The Minutemen, who were active in the 1940s, The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), is thrown from his high-rise apartment. Manhattan (the voice of Billy Crudup), a physicist turned godlike superhero as the result of a laboratory accident. The Watchmen are a group of retired superheroes in the 1980s, a second generation of such "masked crime-fighters." This is an alternate America, where the US has won the Vietnam War, thanks to the efforts of Jon Osterman, Dr. The story is difficult to follow, the dialogue is both juvenile and pretentious, the acting is thoroughly uneven, the look and feel of the film are essentially without character or personality, and its social outlook is disoriented at best. Based on a 12-issue comic book series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons originally published in 1986-1987, Watchmen is largely an empty and pointless movie, with few redeeming features. ![]()
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