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Watchmen. 9/10
Okay cast.
The good:
Billy Crudup did about as good a job as I expected as CGI Manhattan and does a good job as Osterman.
Patrick Wilson was fantastic as Nite Owl II. I was actually really surprised at how much I liked him in the roll. Morgan and Haley are going to get the credit for whats good (as The Comedian and Rorschach respectively) but Wilson does a fantastic Nite Owl.
Jeffery Dean Morgan. Wow. He is awesomely vile as The Comedian.
Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach. What can I say? He IS Rorschach (and yes I've heard Alan Moore do Rorschach on YouTube and Haley was better).
The Meh:
Matthew Goode as Ozymandias. He was, well, okay. Nothing special but not Ozy enough except when it counted, you know, Spoiler: "35 minutes ago".
The Bad:
Malin Akerman. Well she's hot. That's about it. She just doesn't deliver the goods when stacked up beside the other actors in the film.
The film itself.
I loved the montage, what a fantastic way to do the backstory without tying up an hour of screen time for what is really not needed to get the story.
After that it's like watching a (okay edited down for length) moving version of the comic for the next hour or so. Blake's funeral? Wow. How fantastic was that? Mars? Oh my god.
Where there changes? Yeah there were. For the most part I was okay with them. Then there's the one big one but I wanted to give it the chance to not suck Spoiler: and to be honest it doesn't. The way they set up the Ozy/Manhatten power story-line worked for me. And "Dr Manhattan" attacking the super-powers? I was okay with him being subbed in for the Space squid.
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