After nearly-intolerable levels of hype...who has watched "Watchmen?"
I am not keen on comic book movies (big exception; "The Dark Knight"), but I'd been wanting to see 'Watchmen" for a long time. Besidesbeing in different stages of production for two decades and nearly being shelved after post thanks to 20th Fox and a rights squabble, here it came. And, man,was it generally bad. To be fair, when it's good, it is very. See it for the fifteen-minute "how-Dr.-Manhattan-came-to-be" montage, a la the"Koyaanisquatsi" Phillip Glass score, which is incredible, beautiful, and still very sad. The pessimistic Rorsarch is cool, too, as is the overrunprison scene. The remaining characters are poorly written and so very melodramatic (no matter how hot Jupiter looks in yellow latex) and the film's basictwo spoon-fed messages (for the first two hours: 'what if super-heroes were real; how would they be affected by their society, country and media?') andthe second, to which the final hour is devoted ('how much would these super-heroes be willing to sacrifice for the good of their people?') areinteresting questions, of course, but the time devoted to posing them (and offering a handful of answers) is almost as tedious as the poor dialogue by which itis conducted. Too bad; anybody else sit through it?<br><br>edit: if you are going to see it, do so at a matinee and for God's sake, this is not "Spiderman," a kid's movie. Plenty of arm, head and arm(again) chops and gooey exploding baddies (also very cool, thank you Dr. Manhattan, who dialogue is so smartly very limited).
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