Watchmen (Blu-ray)

Watchmen is a great "superhero" movie. So if you like films like Batman, Spider-man, Superman etc, then I really recommend that you give this a try as it's not like your usual super hero flick. In a Superhero movie you expect a single character who has some sort of special power who is against a bad-guy who is hell bent on causing destruction. Watchmen is very different from that! The Watchmen are a group of ordinary ex-cops with no special powers (except one or two of them) who decide they've had enough with the masked villains. For most of the film it is not even clear who the bad-guy is! Dr. Manhattan is the only character who has ...  Read the complete review

I write this review as a total newbie to Watchmen. I have neither read the novel before or after seeing the film. Wathmen is the film adapatation of a comic book series which was later realesed as a graphic novel. It focuses on a group of Super Heroes called Watchmen and is set in an alternate version of the 1980's. After one of the Watchmen named the Comedian is killed at the start of the film, we are treated to opening credits that serve as a history lesson into the alternate history of the story. The main gist of it being that with the help of the Watchmen, America triumphed in the Vietnam War. This led to Nixon remaining in power & tensions ...  Read the complete review