Manhattan, all the Watchmen are human.įirst, we have the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a brutal, amoral man whose early death provides the plot with much of its impetus, but who still gets ample screen time in a number of flashbacks. This history is merely a backdrop for the Watchmen to play out their trials and tribulations, but only half of the gang is really worth noting. Near the start of the film, the Doomsday Clock, an actual device, is moved to five minutes before midnight "midnight" signifying nuclear holocaust and the annihilation of all mankind. Taking over where the Reagan administration otherwise would have been, Nixon is engaged in a nuclear stalemate with the Soviet Union, a stalemate which is growing increasingly more fragile. Set in an alternate universe, "Watchmen," based faithfully on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and directed by Zach Snyder, necessarily begins with a conceit: It is 1985 and thanks to our team of superheroes, the United States won a crushing victory in the Vietnam War, and as a result, Richard Nixon is now in his fifth term as president. And on the whole, it's a stupid, sordid urban fantasy too intent on ending humanity's self-destruction to give a whit about humanity itself. Like some of its peers, "Watchmen" retains the paranoia and stylized violence and, like others, it does away with the "traditional" superhero and any trace of identifiable human interaction. Amid the slew of graphic novel adaptations that have emerged in the last five years or so, we can now welcome "Watchmen" to the fold.
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