The Watchmen is a superhero movie. Someone is killing superheroes and it must be stopped. Time: 1985. Place: USA
The movie is too long, about three hours. They could have cut an hour out of it and had a better movie. The first half really drags as the story is set up. The entire movie is full of hyperbolic action. After a head is smashed a couple of times, continued smashing is purely gratuitous. Most of the movie is dark or shades of gray and when color is used it is less than intense. Character development is fairly well done but could have been better. The flashbacks were kind of annoying. I did like the movie and the sound track was great. Perhaps if I had read the graphic novel?
