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Name: Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut
Released: 2009-3-6
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley

Watchmen: The Ultimate Cut

R
3h 35m
2009

65%

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With 24 extra minutes of action-packed, effects-laden scenes not seen in theaters, as well as the animated short "Tales of the Black Freighter" re-edited into the film! A multi-layered adventure unfolds as scenes from the graphic novel make the leap to film. In an alternate 1985 United States, superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?

Director:

Zack Snyder

Producer:

Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Deborah Snyder, Herbert W. Gains, Thomas Tull

Writer:

David Hayter, Alex Tse

Cast:

Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson

© 2009 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Paramount Pictures Corporation and Legendary Pictures. All Rights Reserved. WATCHMEN and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and copyright DC Comics. Smiley Logo: TM The Smiley Company.

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

65%

Critics Consensus: Gritty and visually striking, Watchmen is a faithful adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel, but its complex narrative structure may make it difficult for it to appeal to viewers not already familiar with the source material.

Reviews

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Sean Axmaker

The story of costumed superheroes into the real world offers a visual spectacle to be sure, but it emphasizes the “novel” in graphic novel: narrative complexity, character dynamism, the density of fiction and history and commentary swirling together.

Ambitious films like this are generally either glorious artistic successes or utter failures; Watchmen uniquely falls somewhere in the middle.

Technically sublime, with a distinct style, brilliant production design, and gorgeous cinematography. As it stands, as one and only film, it’s really impressive even with its flaws.

While Snyder has brought this “unfilmable” story to the screen in the best way imaginable, he still can’t entirely keep it from feeling a bit cramped even at 160 minutes.

Snyder's tongue in cheek graphic novel adaptation gets the most of it right faithfully, from two dimensional feel of the imagery with new age-y primary color-palette to Alan Moore's cynical exploration of the ugly side of Humanity.

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