Movie Review: Watchmen
Mar. 10th, 2009 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catalyst2One word review? Audacious.
Zack Snyder dared to throw everything he could at this movie (and still keep it at a reasonable length) and everything single thing stuck - good script, great casting (Rorschach was inspired casting), SFX like no-one's business, excellent use of music and surprisingly little compromise on the story with three exceptions: no Under The Hood extracts (although the book was sighted a number of times in the background), no Black Freighter story-within-a-story and no giant exploding psychic squid over New York. I knew all three of those weren't happening, the squid only because of some spoilers I stumbled across a few months ago.
Jackie Earle Haley just was Rorschach and he was Walter Kovacs too. The melancholy of Dr. Manhattan just oozed through and Dan/Laurie were just on fire. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was utterly sleazy and menacing by turns as The Comedian and Matthew Goode brought out Adrian Veidt's arrogance and self-assurance just perfectly.
Nothing failed in this movie for me - the intensity of the violence was shocking just as it should have been and Haley managed to pull off the best line of the movie: "I'm not locked in here with you - you're locked in here with me!" with all the menace that I remember reading that line with.
Overall, a wonderfully satisfying movie that really did bring to life one of the great (if not THE greatest) comic book of all time!)
Zack Snyder dared to throw everything he could at this movie (and still keep it at a reasonable length) and everything single thing stuck - good script, great casting (Rorschach was inspired casting), SFX like no-one's business, excellent use of music and surprisingly little compromise on the story with three exceptions: no Under The Hood extracts (although the book was sighted a number of times in the background), no Black Freighter story-within-a-story and no giant exploding psychic squid over New York. I knew all three of those weren't happening, the squid only because of some spoilers I stumbled across a few months ago.
Jackie Earle Haley just was Rorschach and he was Walter Kovacs too. The melancholy of Dr. Manhattan just oozed through and Dan/Laurie were just on fire. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was utterly sleazy and menacing by turns as The Comedian and Matthew Goode brought out Adrian Veidt's arrogance and self-assurance just perfectly.
Nothing failed in this movie for me - the intensity of the violence was shocking just as it should have been and Haley managed to pull off the best line of the movie: "I'm not locked in here with you - you're locked in here with me!" with all the menace that I remember reading that line with.
Overall, a wonderfully satisfying movie that really did bring to life one of the great (if not THE greatest) comic book of all time!)
