Tonight I decided to watch the Watchmen. To start off I’d like to let you know that I have never read the comic and I have no idea what this movie is going to be about.
So, all I have to say is WOW… coming in at about 9 and a half hours its a pretty confusing movie. I noticed the opening credits are extremely similar to the slow-mo filming that was in Zombieland. The movie skips around in the beginning quite a bit, but the plot finally shows up in the last 3 to 4 hours. I have to give credit where credit is due though, the special FXx are really great. I’m still confused on to where the speedy guy got the strange tiger with the horns. The movie never really explained it, then vaporized it. The movie never really explained much anything. It was difficult to really understand some of the back story to a lot of the characters, before they were killed off. Though it was nice to see Nixon retaking his role as president, just like in Futurama.
Overall, it was a strange, strange, movie which introduced characters and eviscerated them just as quickly. I am not quite sure to make of the political suggestions, but the war room scene with Nixon I swear was straight out of Dr. Strangelove.
I give it 2 stars out of 5. I would have rated it worse if the FX and fighting wasn’t somewhat cool. I don’t think I’d ever watch it again but a good choice if you are running low on your movie queue on Netflix.
In cheesiness I give it 3 cheeses out of 5 due to just plain being confusing, which came off as cheesy.
