Watchmen (2009)

Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Director: Zack Snyder

Writers: David Hayter, Alex Tse, Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore

Cinematographer: Larry Fong

Composer: Tyler Bates

Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino

Imaginatively directed, intricately plotted, and affectingly acted, this big screen adaptation of Moore and Gibbons’s much lauded graphic novel, a tale of fading superheroes and impending nuclear apocalypse, is a mainstream work of rare power, which (surprisingly) makes good use of its budget to (atypically) poetic affect. Iain.Stott