Watchmen Reviews:Watchmen Movie Rotten Tomatoes
Watchmen Reviews:Watchmen Movie Rotten Tomatoes – Here is a long list of reviews of the upcoming movie”Watchmen”.Let us agree to disagree some hated the film,others loved it,but it still made $4.6 million from midnight screenings that took place early Friday. Justin Chang, Variety:
Fans of Alan Moore’s landmark graphic novel, concerning a ring of Gotham superheroes brought out of retirement by an impending nuclear threat, will thrill to every pulpy line of dialogue and bloody act of retribution retained in director Zack Snyder’s slavishly faithful adaptation.”
Harry Knowles, Ain’t It Cool News:
“Honestly, if I have a complaint it is that the film feels brief to me. Two hours and 40 minutes and it went by like a blink for me. I easily would have patiently sat for another 2 hours, but that’s me.”
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times:
“[A]nother bold exercise in the liberation of the superhero movie. 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.”
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly:
“[E]ven ‘Watchmen’ fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay this faithful to a comic book. The opening-credit sequence has a marvelous audacity … [but] once the film proper begins, Snyder, who did such a terrific job of adapting the solemn Olympian war porn of ‘300,’ treats each image with the same stuffy hermetic reverence. He doesn’t move the camera or let the scenes breathe. He crams the film with bits and pieces, trapping his actors like bugs wriggling in the frame.”
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times:
“Alan Moore was right. There isn’t a movie in his landmark graphic novel ‘Watchmen’ — at least not a really good one. What we get instead is something acceptable but pedestrian, an adaptation that is more a prisoner of its story than the master of it.”
Peter Martin, Cinematical.com:
” ‘Watchmen’ is a lighter version of very dark material. On its own, the movie is an efficient adrenaline delivery machine, occasionally taking flight and occasionally sputtering, but most often just motoring down a long road with colorful scenery to pass the time.”
A.O. Scott, The New York Times:
” ‘Watchmen’ features this year’s hands-down winner of the bad movie sex award, superhero division: a moment of bliss that takes place on board Nite Owl’s nifty little airship, accompanied by Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker:
“The bad news about ‘Watchmen’ is that it grinds and squelches on for two and a half hours, like a major operation. The good news is that you don’t have to stay past the opening credit sequence — easily the highlight of the film.”
Dana Stevens, Slate:
“Whenever a fight begins (and there’s one about every 15 minutes in this 160-minute movie), brace yourself for an abundance of narratively pointless bone-crunching, finger-twisting, limb-sawing, and skull-hacking. These extreme sports are often filmed in ‘Matrix’-style slow motion, a technique that tends to grind the story to a halt. Like the money shots in porn movies, Snyder’s action scenes are an end in themselves — gratifying if you like that sort of thing, gross if you don’t.”
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