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Suitable for 18 years and over Paramount Home Entertainment Release date: Monday 27th of July 2009 Starring: Malin Akerman, Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Director(s): Format: Anamorphic, PAL, Running time: 162 minutes Language: English (Audio Description) Language: English (Subtitled) Language: Danish (Subtitled) Language: Dutch (Subtitled) Language: Finnish (Subtitled) Language: French (Subtitled) Language: German (Subtitled) Language: Italian (Subtitled) Language: Norwegian (Subtitled) Language: Portuguese (Subtitled) Language: Spanish (Subtitled) Language: Swedish (Subtitled)

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Carla Gugino, Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman, Patrick Wilson, Jack Earle HaleyDirectors: Zack Snyder

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Everybody's favourite graphic novel comes to the screen (after years of rumours and false starts), less a roaring work of adaptation than a respectful and faithful take on a radical original. Watchmen is set in the mid-1980s, a time of increased nuclear tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, as Richard Nixon is enjoying his fifth term as president and the world's superheroes have been forcibly retired. (As you can probably tell, the mix of authentic history and alternate reality is heady.) Things begin with a bang: the mysterious high-rise murder of the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a masked hero with a checkered past, puts the rest of the retired superhero community on alert. The credits sequence, a series of tableaux that wittily catches us up on crime-fighting backstory, actually turns out to be the high point of the movie. Thereafter we meet the other caped and hooded avengers: the furious Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), the inexplicably naked Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup, amidst much blue-skinned, genital-swinging digital work), Silk Spectre II (Malin Akerman), Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson), and Ozymandias (Matthew Goode). The corkscrewing storytelling, which worked well in the comic book, gives the movie the strange sense of never quite getting in gear, even as some of the episodes are arresting. Director Zack Snyder (300) doesn't try to approximate the electric impact of the original (written by Alan Moore--who declined to be credited on the movie--and illustrated by Dave Gibbons) but retains careful fidelity to his source material. That doesn't feel right, even with the generally enjoyable roll-out of anecdotes. Even less forgivable is the blah acting, excepting Jeffrey Dean Morgan (lusty) and Patrick Wilson (mellow). Watchmen certainly fills the eyes, although less so the ears: the song choices are regrettable, especially during an embarrassing mid-air coupling between Nite Owl II and Silk Spectre II as they unite their--ah--Roman numerals. In the end it feels as though a huge work of transcription has been successfully completed, which isn't the same as making a full-blooded movie experience. --Robert Horton

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Review date: 2010-02-22 Rating: 4 out of 10

Not as good a film as I thought it was going to be. Would have been better buying the standard dvd than Blu-ray as the film is pretty non descript.

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