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(1 - 50) of 55 OFCS Rating: 62% Fresh Page   12   > Next 4/5 "Synder has achieved what many said was impossible; he has in-fact filmed the unfilmable, and arguably done so as well as anyone could have."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 4/5 "A sprawling epic of our times - and all times."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel C "Watchmen is no doubt a love letter to those who have been awaiting this film for two decades, but the drawbacks outweigh the advantages for the uninitiated."   FromTheBalcony   Bill Clark 4.5/5 "Somewhere between the off-target outright dismissals and the overindulgent geek praise lies Zack Snyder's Watchmen, and it's a sensational sight to behold."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron C "This is not a delectable mythos that needed a shiny new package for the world to enjoy, and especially not one that takes more pride in the art of the slow motion punch over an exhilarating sensation of doom."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B "For its salivating fans and audiences itching for something completely different from the Hollywood superhero model, there's much ferocity to sample here. Taste the fury Babyface."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 2/5 "Watchmen has a few moments of brief wonder, but the rest is a soulless, unimaginative work, a flat adaptation with a Bob Dylan soundtrack."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius B+ "A hip, relatively precise interpretation of the popular '80s graphic novel is the film's greatest strength -- and it's greatest weakness."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher C+ "Unimaginative direction."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2/4 "About as uneven as a movie can get, singular moments of dizzying brilliance arriving amidst an unfocused, lugubrious narrative and pacing that would make a turtle's crawl appear speedy. A visionary motion picture more ambitious than successful."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman 2/5 "Una adaptación demasiado ambiciosa, hecha con mucho esmero y visualmente impactante, pero que termina agotando al espectador con su acumulación de personajes, anécdotas, subtramas y referencias (...)"   Uruguay Total   Enrique Buchichio B- "It's a movie to see once, more or less enjoy, and then shrug off."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 3/4 "There is much to like about Watchmen. But it's not without its flaws and if the end result is as faithful as adaptations come, they go as far back as the source material."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress C "The movie was reportedly trimmed from four hours to two hours and forty minutes, and that turns out to simply not be enough time. All the material is here, but its scope and power are lost."   AMCtv.com   Eugene Novikov "Attempts to add something to the original betray an artistic sensibility summed up with 'Whoa, cool!'"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce 3/4 "A nearly 3-hour orgy of orchestrated violent vibrancy designed to perpetuate a whole new appreciation for ambitious, unconventional superhero expositions. Robustly confrontational and impishly raw."   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C- "A $100 million cult movie that some fans may adore--if they can stomach the changes; but despite the visual virtuosity, it will bore many if not most of the uninitiated."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A phantasmagorical tale"   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2.5/4 "Watchmen is a perfect example of how material, no matter how reverentially treated and massaged, often loses something critical in translation."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "manages to maintain much of the book's heady philosophical weight, albeit primarily by changing as little as possible from the source material"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick "Think a darker and more philosophical version of Dark Knight . . . This movie adaptation will appease even the most rabid Watchmen comics geek out there as well as win new converts!"   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 4/5 "... A bizarrely bleak blockbuster, as director Zack Snyder ("300") turns the rich, revisionist, justly praised, 12-part 1986 comic book into nothing less than an attempt to decode 20th century America through its pop culture and vice-versa."   MSN Movies   James Rocchi 8/10 "A movie fascinating to watch while asking us to contemplate moral relativity, the futility of life ... and other heady concepts you might fully expect to find in not just another comic book movie."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy 3/4 "That director Zack Snyder's vehemently faithful adaptation of Alan Moore's seminal graphic novel is as entertaining as it is counts as a monumental achievement. But that doesn't make it a great movie."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 7/10 "...surprisingly entertaining for all its fragmented diversity."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio 2.5/4 "Basically, with Watchmen, the filmmakers could not win."   Bangitout.com   Jordan Hiller 2/5 "Watchmen should not have been made into a movie, at least not this movie, but I do hope you fanboys enjoy your three-hour music video of your favorite graphic novel. I am so disappointed in this film for its own sake, never mind for the sake of the origi"   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 4.0/4.0 "...influenced by other recent superhero films, the world of Watchmen may not be as fouled as its source, but the raw emotion promised in the trailers resonates just as loudly."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 4/5 "A brilliant piece of cinema and a fantastic adaptation of the original source material. It might not be for everyone, but for the fans, it will be the event of the year."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr 4/4 "More interested in mythology, philosophy and genre deconstruction than in cheap thrills."   Montreal Film Journal   Kevin N. Laforest B+ "Giant squids notwithstanding, it is a slavishly faithful, if compressed, adaptation - so much so that I often wondered why the comic frames weren't simply projected onto the screen."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "A first-rate adaptation of Moore and Gibbons' densely imagined, alternate pop culture history of the world, a dazzling, dystopian fable with a deeply dark heart."   Miss FlickChick   Maitland McDonagh 3/10 "With a film featuring all this violence and with superheroes the last thing you would expect is a film so dreary and tedious."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[P]robably the best three-hour version of the story that could be made..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 4/4 "The film has a stunning look, abundant intelligence, and a blessed retention of most of the ideas that made the graphic novel a classic in its genre. Watchmen gave me a big old nerd-gasm."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B+ "Faithfully and successfully grapples with the book's multi-layered storyline and fascinatingly flawed characters."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 2.5/4 "A reverential photocopy of a superior original, it's often close to perfect, if also, to some extent, perfectly pointless."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "Numa época em que Hollywood vem tratando cada vez mais os espectadores como verdadeiros débeis mentais, devemos ser gratos por finalmente sermos tratados como adultos."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 2.5/5 "[Snyder] ironically embodies the very overindulgence that Rorschach repeatedly points out will be the death of our society."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 2/5 "Not"Watchmen" but a not-so-incredible simulation that reduces a complex examination of the dynamics of dopey superhero epics into just another dopey superhero epic."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "It's gripping and eye-popping, with terrific characters for the cast to sink their teeth into. But also feels rather overwrought."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "...a strange and gorgeous beast indeed, not without problems, a mesmerizing epic folly of the sort hardly anyone attempts any more. It is absolutely sick with ambition..."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves A- "How can one complain about the small failures of Watchmen when its successes dwarf them so profoundly and completely?"   Mania.com   Rob Vaux B "This movie is very deliberately aimed at teenaged boys (soft porn and gore porn) and it should do very well in the video market as well as at the box office."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 7/10 "Although still just a comic book of a film this is fascinating and riveting action drama that entertains start to finish"   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson 4.5/5 "A powerfully good film, one that takes a bunch of familiar ingredients, and whips them up into a stew you've never tasted before."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg "The fans have gotten the adaptation they deserve. Is it the one they want?"   Seanax.com   Sean Axmaker 3.5/5 "comes about as close to Moore's intent as we're likely to see in adapting the sprawling Watchmen into manageable, feature-length form"   Filmcritic.com   Sean O'Connell "Ponderous and dull, this filmic adaptation of the famous graphic novel proves that great source material, a healthy budget, and technical competence are not enough to make a good movie."   Cinefantastique   Steve Biodrowski  (1 - 50) of 55 OFCS Rating: 62% Fresh Page   12   > Next