Watchmen
- Director: Zack Snyder
- Writer: David Hayter; Alex Tse
- Producer: Wesley Coller; Herb Gains
CGiii Comment
The 'Ultimate Cut' at just under 3 and a half hours...is a marathon.
And the jury is well and truly divided.
The animation is inept and utterly unnecessary - more of an abstraction than an essential component to the story.
It is thoroughly entertaining and, unexpectedly, hard-hitting.
Great escapism.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.
Cast & Characters
Malin Akerman as Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre II;
Billy Crudup as Dr. Manhattan / Jon Osterman;
Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias;
Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs / Rorschach;
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake / The Comedian;
Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl II;
Carla Gugino as Sally Jupiter / Silk Spectre;
Matt Frewer as Edgar Jacobi / Moloch the Mystic;
Stephen McHattie as Hollis Mason / Nite Owl;
Laura Mennell as Janey Slater;
Rob LaBelle as Wally Weaver;
Gary Houston as John McLaughlin;
James M. Connor as Pat Buchanan;
Mary Ann Burger as Eleanor Clift;
John Shaw as Doug Roth