Who Watches the Watchmen

The recently released Watchmen it was one ,if not thee, most anticipated and hyped comic book movie, only being rivaled by The Dark Knight. I had been waiting a good two years, ever since i heard the graphic novel was going to be adapted into a movie. And let me tell you i was not disappointed in anyway. They called Watchmen unfilmable comic but i think Zack Snyder (the director) has made the definitive Watchmen movie and is the closest anyone will get to perfect.

For those of you who do not have a clue about anything I am talking about Watchmen is a graphic novel written bye The great Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons in 1987. It takes place in an alternate 1987 where masked vigilantes have becomed outlawed unless they become registered and work for the government. The main characters are The Comedian (Eddie Blake), who is a ruthless and evil war hero; Dr. Manhattan (Jon Osterman), who is the only one with actually powers which is control over all matter, essentially he is god; Nite Owl II (Dan Dreiberg), who took his name from a vigilante who was active back during world war II and his only super power are his gadgets; Rorschach (Walter Kovac) who is a deranged mentally unstable detective who wears a mask and is the main narrator of the story; Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt), the smartest man in the world and the only one to officially "come out" and tell everyone his secret identity; and Silk Spectre II (Lauire Juspeczyk), who took the mantle from her mother who also fought along side the Nite Owl she also has no powers except her fighting ability. The Comedian is and Rorschach, who still operates illegally as a vigilante, and starts to investigate. Only to dig up something much bigger then he thought and in the process bringing Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre II out of "retirement". Now, I don't want to give too much of the plot away because I don't want to spoil it for anyone I hope this will make you interested in both the movie and novel.

Before I saw it i was reading and hearing how it is going to be exactly out of the comic. And it really was, I mean of course some artistic freedoms were taking so it could work on screen but it is word for word out of the graphic novel. Which I guess is good and bad, good because the graphic novel is written beautifully and bad because I read it before I saw it so it was really weird to hear everything and i could tell what was coming next but that did not take away from the perfect and appropriate acting from the wonderful cast. I mean it is literally like watching the graphic novel. The special effects are simply amazing, appropriate, and fitting. They make the fight scenes look believable and realistic yet still like its in a fantasy world, because even though most of them do not have super powers they are still well-trained, condition, and skilled fighter far superior then a normal citizen. And the things they had Dr. Manhattan doing were extraordinary, some of the best special effects I have ever seen. Its a great movie with a great and intersting plot and extrememly interesting characters, my only suggestion is watch the movie then read the book.