Watchmen
2009 · Movie · 163 min. · United States
It's the 1980's and it's a different world. Superheroes have been outlawed, the only ones still in operation under direct control of the United States government. Suddenly, those heroes both still in action and retired find themselves targets by an unseen enemy, who wants to kill them one by one. A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up 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 ragtag 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?
Direction Zack Snyder
Cast Jackie Earle Haley · Malin Akerman · Patrick Wilson · Billy Crudup · Matthew Goode · Jeffrey Dean Morgan · Carla Gugino · Matt Frewer · Stephen McHattie · Rob LaBelle · Laura Mennell · Gary Houston · James M. Connor · Mary Ann Burger · John Shaw · Robert Wisden · Jerry Wasserman · Don Thompson · Frank Novak · Ron Fassler · Stephanie Belding · Nhi Do · Walter Addison · Eli Snyder · J.R. Killigrew
Soundtrack Tyler Bates
Screenplay Alex Tse · David Hayter · Alan Moore · Dave Gibbons
Cinematography Larry Fong
Original title Watchmen
6.8
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