Cast Jackie Earle Haley
Patrick Wilson
Billy Crudup
Malin Akerman
Matthew Goode
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Carla Gugino
Matt Frewer
Screenwriters
David Hayter
Alex Tse
Director
Zach Snyder
Running Time
162 minutes
Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed 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 disbanded 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? (Warner Bros.)
It is difficult for me to really judge it, I mentioned in a Harry Potter review how I got the impression of being told the synopsis of a book and here as I have read Watchmen lots of parts that were missing I was filling in subconsciously. They have changed the ending slightly, I guess mostly for time because it cuts out having to do the storyline about the manufacturing of the alien creature. The comic is a very complex philosophical drama and although the film was long a lot of that was missed out and action scenes added. I thought the cast were all fine, there have been some reviews that maligned Akerman but I had no problem with her. The guy playing Nixon was wearing basically a rubber mask and that would have been better done like Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon. Overall I thought it was good but not great but it's difficult to seperate it from my memories of the book which is so much greater.
