"This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face." Its 1985, in a US that won the Vietnam war due to their not so secret weapon, Dr Manhatten (Billy Crudup), a scientist who due to a nuclear accident has developed into a superhuman collossus capable of bending the laws of physics. Dr Manhatten was a member of an disbanded organisation of costumed superheroes, called the Watchmen and we follow the various members as they come back together to investigate the violent murder of The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Could the murder be in any way connected to the mounting tension between the US and Russia, that threatens to explode into nuclear annialation.
An incredibly dark and twisted graphic novel is straightened out and thinned down to make an interesting film, full of great action sequences. Some will quibble with the adaption, but its actually a good version of what many considered an unfilmable story. Its not Alan Moores Watchmen, but its still a complex and beautifully atmospheric and realised world.
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