Director: Zack Snyder.
Main Cast: Patrick Wilson, Malin Akerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup.
Writers: David Hayter, Alex Tse, Alan Moore.
Rating: 8/10.

Yesterday I went to the cinema to watch a movie which I think I kind of empathized because of it’s trailer, and yes, it was Watchmen. First of all, try to get that Watchmen is not your average super hero movie. It is based on a graphic novel by Allan Moore, being the only graphic novel to appear on Time’s 2005 “All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels” list. It is not the kind of movie where you see superheros with great powers doing some nasty crazy stuff, with everyone happy and a happy ending, with lots of love and kisses… NOT.

This is a kind of movie that has some philosophical message attached to it, lots of blood and guts, and some explicit naked scenes or even a rape attempt, and yes, you are reading well. Because of this, I believe that lots of people will be upset after watching the movie, because it was not what they expected. It was not my case. Since I went to a midnight session in the middle of the week, the movie room was almost empty, allowing me to appreciate the movie in a peaceful and concentrated way. In fact, I had some luck, as the sound was pretty loud, since you could not only see, but feel the explosions! eheheh.. About the movie itself, I think that it had a marvelous atmosphere attached to it, as I found the color exposition of the images just awesome.

There were also some other things that I found quite different from the usual, like the 3 minute opening credits, depicting some events that marked world history, like the Kennedy assassination, the flower in a gun barrel accident, the Vietnam war, the burning Vietnamese monk, all of this while listening to the iconic protest song The times They Are-A Changin’ by Bob Dylan. Come one, if you’ve been around this world with interest of all important things that happened in recent history, this opening scene would certainly put a smile on your face. This being said, it is obvious that I took attention to the music along the movie, and I could spot some nice surprises, like Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel, or Jimmy Hendrix’s verion of All along the Watchtower. Believe me, I really enjoyed the Music in the Movie.

I found the interpretation of the actors pretty well done, specially the representation done by Jackie Earle Haley which impersonates Rorschach/Walter Kovacs, who narrates the movie in voice-off, like if it all was his Personal Diary. In general, if you are perceptive, the story goes very well, and you get the idea that the director, the cast and all the others did a good job to represent such a complex graphic novel into the movie world. My final opinion? If you disliked Spider Man because it looked like a movie for kids, go watch it, and think about the motto that is given: They watch for us… but who watches for watchmen?

WATCHMEN: Movie Trailer.

Daniel Pereira is an E-Marketer, Web Developer, Blogger and Web Artist, taking a Degree in Marketing, Advertising and Public Relationships and specializing in CRM and SEO. If you liked the article, you can follow the updates by RSS, E-Mail or Twitter and share it in your favorite places.