Sadly Over-hyped

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I saw this movie when it came out so 9 years ago now and was sorta meh on it. I think I was hoping it was going to be like Sin City after seeing how stylized it was and it's not that movie not at all. That doesn't mean it was bad and I actually liked it a lot more this viewing. Most everything was good. The story was really cool and much better than all the marvel nonsense out these days. The action was fine but didn't stand out. The characters were deep. There's more thinking going on here than the typical super hero movie and that's a good thing. It's a world where caped heroes had retired basically but came out of hiding after one of their own got killed. A plot that affects the whole world though is revealed when investigating his death and it goes from there. Basically the pacing of the moving is the only thing I thought was a bit off but still MUCH MUCH better than I remembered. And no it's not as good as Sin City, Sin City is a masterpiece.

One of the most boring films I ever saw ! Thankfully I saw it in bluray disk that I rent it and was able to jump scenes again and again and again ! Don't waste your time to watch it !

The effects in this film really went it its favor. The characters that had some of the least backstory were eventually the best developed, such as Rorschach and The Comedian. Dr. Manhattan's effects and Billy Crudup's port rail is spot on to what Id think Manhattan shouldn sound like. Where the movie falls is in it's Female lead. She was one of the most developed in the comic but she comes of as cold and whiny. Malin Ackerman has the most shoddy line delivery in the movie, right next to Matthew Goode, that may be because he had to do an American accent with his very British one. Ultimately the movie comes down to a solid 90% for me.

An interesting sort of a "through a glass darkly" look on the cold war! An amazing adaptation of the graphic novel, but no wonder screenplay is by Solid Snake himself(David Hayter). If the ending was left as it was in the book, this would have been PERFECT! Jackie Earle Haley is amazing as Rorschach, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan isn't far behind as the Comedian! The rest of the cast does a good job as well. The soundtrack is AMAZING! And the best opening credits sequence ever for sure! Seriously just check out the opening sequence if nothing else..