I had expected something completely different about Watchmen than what it actually is. The blurb at the back of the case says that the plot is about when a retired superhero is murdered, it sparks up an investigation and ultimately a band together of other superheroes in which they uncover a sinister plot. So... the murder happened... but then the sinister plot and band together didn't happen until two hours later. I felt the movie overall was... pointless. Everything that pretty much happened was pointless. It was so melodramatic and dark and apparently deep, but in the end, it felt shallow. You can sit there, watched through an hour to an hour and a half of the film and still you don't know where it is going to go. It just seemed to be a collection of various scenes stuck together. The worse thing is that it's extremely long, at over 2.5 hours, what a bore and a chore it was during that whole time. It was overly violent. I admit it, I'm not really a big fan of massive violence when there is no need for it, and there is no need for it here. There was also no need for all the sexually suggestive themes and that sex scene, which seemed completely out of place anyway. One thing that felt odd to me was that the film was set in an alternate version of 1985, and yet we keep seeing these super advanced technology that looks out of place in that time period (it's not even possible using contemporary technology). The plot lacked substance, since all that time was spent not advancing it or telling the viewers what it was about and then suddenly, things are revealed like they're supposed to shock you. They don't work because you feel indifferent, there was no build up or empathy felt towards the characters so you don't care. As you can see, I'm not a big fan of this film (maybe it's because I haven't read the graphic novel that this is based on?).
