Watchmen Movie Review

Wired: Mostly faithful adaptation, Nixonian time line, breathtaking action, Dr. Manhattan's junk

Tired: Bad musical additions (Nena?), not enough Rorschach, too many non-Watchmen Easter eggs

Rating: 7/10

clipped from blog.wired.com One could call bringing Watchmen to the big screen a thankless job. In finally adapting the greatest comic ever written, director Zack Snyder has triumphed under pressure where true visionaries like Darren Aronofsky and Terry Gilliam have failed. He has successfully turned Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' brilliant comics mini-series into a must-see movie for every Watchmen fanboy in the land. If only it were that simple. As a devoted fan of the comic and its writer, it is hard for me to call Watchmen a great film. Caught between its loyalty to the source material and a desire to carve out its own legend, the R-rated epic is a bloody mess with its still-beating heart in the right place. But its head isn't in the game, unless that game is all about marketing blitzes, product tie-ins and raking in Dumpsters full of cash. If those are the stakes, then it's game over: Snyder has locked down the championship win. Watchmen Actors Trumped by Awesome Visuals