Watchmen

Guilty as charged! This reviewer has not read Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s graphic novel on which Watchmen is based, so I’m looking at it purely as a newcomer to the story like many others in the audience. Let’s say that comic strips have become much darker over the years, long removed from the innocent early days of Superman, Mandrake, Buck Rogers, Li’l Abner and rest. In fact Watchman is so black it makes The Dark Knight look like a bright shining day. It’s said director Zack Snyder has made a faithful adaption of the original. That may be true, but his baby is born in the woolly cocoon of excessive screen time...
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