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Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Rating: R
Release Date: Mar 6, 2009
Running Time: 161 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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?
| "Where the comic is a glossy face on pain and terror, the movie is just a pretty picture." | Watchmen, meant as the ultimate anti-establishment rebellion comic, has been infused with a big studio budget and delivered to the big screen. Unfortunately, the resulting film completely misses the spirit of the thing.

PETER TRAVERS -
March 4, 2009
Listen up, "Watchmen" virgins. I don't care if you know squat about the orgasmically received 1987 graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons: It's time to bust your cherry. With its alternate universe of vigilante superheroes and power-crazed U.S. politicians heading for nuclear disaster, Watchmen took comic books to the next level as literature. The film, directed by 300 wild man Zack Snyder, arrives after years of false starts from the creative likes of Brazil's Terry
Story WHAT'S IT ABOUT? Set in 1985 in an alternate universe, the U.S. is in bad shape. Nixon is running for his third term (!), war is about to break out with the Russians and superheroes have become outcasts in a world so complicated even THEY can't get enthusiastic about saving it. When one of them, a former member of the Watchmen named The Comedian, is sent hurtling to his death by an unknown intruder in his apartment, it brings his former associates, forced into retirement, back together

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