Watchmen

Originally published as a 12 issue DC comics series by Alan Moore, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock -- which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union -- moves closer to midnight.

Movie Consenus: Visually powerful, intense and uncompromising, Watchmen is an epic comic-book film whose technical and thematic strengths overwhelm its narrative shortcomings. (source: rottentomato)




The Book



Book (Comic) Rating
"A work of ruthless psychological realism, it's a landmark in the graphic novel medium. It would be a masterpiece in any."-TIME, TIME MAGAZINE's 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present

Movie Rating

The movie is definitely worth seeing, especially if you are a fan, but it won't be one of those movies where you have to see it twice or three times. Plus if you can endure for 2 1/2 hours.