Watchmen

2009 • 162 minutes
4.3
4.15K reviews
65%
Tomatometer
R
Rating
Eligible
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In an alternate 1985 United States, 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.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. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion -- a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers -- Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future.Their mission is to watch over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?
Rating
R

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4.3
4.15K reviews
Mr.Griner
January 25, 2017
Only rent this movie if you're jonesin to give a negative review. Granted, it might get better after fifteen minutes, but that's all I could take of the grading ass sound track. The blatant smut and political agenda was like a failed attempt to imitate V for Vendetta. You think it's DC so it might not be good but it can't be terrible. It's bad.
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Brandy dittberner
June 2, 2015
DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM WITH CHILDREN AROUND! The film opens with a rape scene and then the majority of the rest of the first half of the movie revolves around the silk spectre whoring around with multiple guys, multiple times and quite graphically. I stopped watching after they get it on in the ship. I would NOT recommend this movie to ANYONE and wou)would have given it negative 5 stars if it was possible.
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Steve Tetreault
April 18, 2016
This movie does a decent job of bringing an absolutely amazing graphic novel to the screen. If you read my reviews, you'll notice a pattern, but I'm going to repeat myself : Do yourself a favor and read this graphic novel. It's so much more rich and layered than the movie (which is pretty much always the case, because a book can take as long as it takes, while a movie has to fit into a very tight page count for the script to be accepted). Still, this movie does better than most.
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