Review: Watchmen (2009)

Director Zack Snyder (of 300 fame) brings one of the classics of the graphic novel medium (and also one of Time magazine’s 100 Best Novels) to the big screen in Watchmen, where a group of semi-retired superheroes, or “masks,” tries to uncover a plot to destroy their kind, all while under the threat of nuclear annihilation of the human race. Set in an alternate 1985, Watchmen is more murder mystery than a “comic book movie” in the stereotypical sense, with philosophical underpinnings to boot.