Review of Watchmen (2009) by Millo T — 27 Dec 2014

Pretty loyal adaptation. Of course, it couldn´t reach the deepness of the original, and of course, it couldn´t employ the good qualities of the comic fomat, but, come on!, it´s an adaptation, the idea was to take the general idea of the good story and explore the possibilities of cinema, not trying to get the good features of comic format, but to substitute them by the good points of cinema (for example, music!, that is really well-chosen).

As you can presume, the main problems come from trying to tell a so-long story in just a reduced film (the extended version will probably be much better), so I understand that people that haven´t read comic don´t understand some parts, or think things go much quicker than they should -mainly, it is difficult to understand characters´ motivations, and you can see the "mark" of the scissors applied in some parts of the film.

The changes from the original argument are mainly showing some parts that we lost in the comic (interesting change of point of view), other way to organize some facts, and principally the end, maybe more logical and self-conclusive, but without some of the strong implications that the original one had.

So, finally, it is a good film to see, maybe make you think more questions than answers, but that is the point, the film is a way you decide to read the comic, that is a masterpiece in literature. Although I must say, you enjoy much from the film if you have previously read the graphic novel, so, start with it.