Watchmen Review

So I'm prefacing this with saying I haven't read the graphic novel, nor had I heard of it, and I'm not a fan of this genre of movie in general. But I went with someone who wanted to see it, so here is my opinion anyway...

It was WAY long to start. It's like they had to give each character their own 30 minute bio or something. The intro, although a bit long, was pretty cool in the way they did the snapshots of history. I liked that a lot. Having no prior knowledge of the story, to me the story was all over the place. While the back and forth of present to past wasn't necessarily hard to follow in the time sense, it was more of the jump from character to character. It wasn't until the end of the movie that all the characters seemed to come together in a single storyline. The gore however was over the top. I mean you can only see so many arms broken, bodies exploding and blood oozing in one movie. My personal opinion. I know that this was in no way a realistic storyline, in the sense that it could never happen in real life. But that kind of gore is why I shy away from Freddy and Jason movies... it just makes me roll my eyes at the unbelievability of it all. Again, I know it's a comic book movie and completely fictional. But I like gore when it comes with the suspense of a real life situational movie. That get's me going.

On the bright side... the costumes were amazing, the action in general kept you interested, the acting was pretty good, and all the computer technology that went into this was outstanding.

So this is an opinion of someone who would never choose on their own to go see this movie. I can however see how anyone who was a fan of the graphic novel would like it.