They Did The Best They Could
Many have said that Watchmen is a graphic novel, that is impossible to make into a movie. Director Zack Snyder has showed us that it is possible.
The movie begins in the best way possible, The Comedian and the Mask killer fight to the death, and boy is it a kick ass fight. It's easily one of my favorite fights of a comic book movie yet. Then we are treated to a ....decent...opening credits. After the credits we get a movie that is pretty much exactly like the graphic novel. I give props to Zack Snyder making it look exactly like the novel, even to the point you can look at the novel and look at the movie and the two images look almost he same.
The actors all do a great job, but the best performance comes from Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach...I was kinda hoping to hate Jackie's performance because I would have rather seen Doug Hutchison play Rorschach, but the moment the character appeared on screen I was sold. Jackie gave the performance of a lifetime, and this will most likely be the role he will be remembered for....although now I hear he is going to play Freddy Kruger in the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street so ...who knows.
The movie captures the novel perfectly and many may complain that a few scenes were cut, but to be honest I felt that all Zack did was cut all the extra stuff that many of us skipped during our first read of the novel. Let's be honest, none of us really cared when the news guy and the african american kid reading the comic were in the comic. The first time I read it, I skipped ahead to the next apperence of one of the main characters. It didn't take me till the second time I read the novel, when I actually read it all....and even then I thought the two characters were pointless.
Overall the Watchmen movie is a must see for any of the comic fans, and maybe even some looking for a good action mystery movie. It my confuse some people who haven't read the novel, but it does it's best pleasing the fans. My only complaints of the movie were the ridiculously long and awkward sex scene and the pointless overtop gore. The sex scene is somewhat understandable, but the overtop voilence isn't necessary....I mean sure its gotta be R rated for scenes like the fry grease in the face... but do we really need bones being cracked out of the arm in a hand to hand fights?
