Watchmen Critic Reviews

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.Read the full review

Part conscious and part unconscious, Watchmen tells us of a world without hope and then makes us wonder if we're already living in it.Read the full review

Snyder's Watchmen keeps moving so assuredly, it's nearly impossible not to get swept along.Read the full review

Even Watchmen fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay THIS faithful to a comic book.Read the full review

The best moments in Watchmen, then, work as delirious music-videos.Read the full review

Stumbles and sometimes falls on its top-heavy ambitions. But there are also flashes of visual brilliance and performances, especially from Haley and Crudup, that drill deep into the novel's haunted soul.Read the full review

For the Watchmen fan, this may be as close to the Holy Grail as a motion picture could come. For everyone else, a sense of frustration and disappointment is not unwarranted. Watchmen is many things but it is not the Next Great Comic Book Movie or the film that will advance graphic novel adaptations to the next level.Read the full review

Snyder stands revealed here as more of a beginner than a visionary in his uncertain approach to making an on-screen world come alive.Read the full review

In the canon of comic-book movies, it's not as campy bad as the "Batman" starring George Clooney, but nowhere near the caliber of the Spider-Man movies or "The Dark Knight." It may have more style, but it's only a jot more entertaining than "Catwoman."Read the full review