The year is 1985. Richard Nixon has been elected to a fourth term, tensions in the Middle East are about to explode into nuclear war, and the heroes of the last decades have been outlawed and retired. But when the Comedian, a former hero now working as a government operative, is murdered, the masked vigilante Rorschach believes he has uncovered a plot to kill past heroes. As he alerts his former crime fighter allies, they discover they are enmeshed in a conspiracy with truly global consequences. Alan Moore's breakthrough graphic novel has long been considered unfilmable, but director Zack Snyder has made an adaptation that is at once fully committed to its source material and also totally committed to its new medium. "It's a compelling visceral film—- sound, images and characters combined into a decidedly odd visual experience that evokes the feel of a graphic novel. It seems charged from within by its power as a fable; we sense it's not interested in a plot so much as with the dilemma of functioning in a world losing hope." (Roger Ebert) more at watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com 35mm Cinemascope
2009, color, 2 hours 43 minutes, UK/USA