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Garth's Review: "Watchmen"

By Garth Franklin Sunday March 1st 2009 02:01AM
Garth's Review: "Watchmen"

I saw "Watchmen" on Wednesday and my full review is now up in the reviews section. Here's an excerpt:

"Loyal to a fault, Zack Snyder's "Watchmen" takes Alan Moore's subversive magnum opus of comic-dom and brings it to the big screen in a wildly ambitious, often frustrating, but ultimately successful experiment that will divide audiences.

More admirable than engaging, this is a dense work filled with so many layers both historical and intellectual that its deeper meanings are almost impossible to truly capture on a single viewing (making reviewing it under such conditions a daunting prospect). Yet like its most colorful character Rorschach, the no compromise mentality which fuses comic book pulp with existential overtones will ostracize it from reaching beyond a limited but hardcore set who will exalt it as the new standard."

For the full review, click here.

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