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Genres:
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Action /
Drama /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Zack Snyder
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Actors:
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Jeffrey Dean Morgan,
Malin Akerman,
Laura Mennell,
Mary Ann Burger,
Billy Crudup,
Matthew Goode,
Jackie Earle Haley,
Patrick Wilson,
Carla Gugino,
Matt Frewer,
Stephen McHattie,
Rob LaBelle,
Gary Houston,
James M. Connor,
John Shaw
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)328.5
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Plot Summary:
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"Watchmen" is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are corner of the fabric of daily association, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When whole of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to eliminate and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former offence-fighting legion - a ragtag squad of retired superheroes, on the other hand sole of whom has truly power... s - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and worrying conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the . Their errand is to watch upward of humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?"
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Watchmen
Claudia PuigThe image of the doomsday clock is an apt metaphor for the film adaptation of Watchmen (* * out of four). Over the course of two decades, several celebrated directors were involved with some version of the movie, from Terry Gilliam to Darren Aronofsky to Paul Greengrass. As the film bounced from one studio to another, a host of actors, including Tom Cruise and Jude Law, expressed interest in roles. Some, including Hilary Swank and Joaquin Phoenix, signed on early but left with the change of directors. Lucky for them. The highly anticipated Watchmen, as directed by Zack Snyder (300), seems poised to self-destruct. It starts out powerfully, with a brutal but inventively offbeat action sequence, to the tune of Nat King Cole's Unforgettab...
Watchmen
Landmark comic-book that reinvented superheroes is faithfully adapted by 300 director Zack Snyder
The irony seeps through the cinema with the sulphurous whiff of Mephistopheles. Watchmen is a frame-by-frame adaptation of Alan Moore's landmark 1980s graphic novel. Moore's guiding script to artist Dave Gibbons all those years ago is the storyboard for director Zack Snyder's re-enactment of the comic-book geek's sacred text. Nearly every line of dialogue comes from Alan Moore's pen, albeit surgically removed from its original setting and transplanted into a 21st century superhero movie.
Moore's name is missing from the credits of Watchmen at his own insistence. Yet, has an author ever had his masterpiece treated with the reverence director Zack Snyder ...
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