Author: Malin Akerman

Brand: STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVI

Features:

• Format: Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC.
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1). Subtitles: English, French, Spanish.
• Region: Region 1 (US and Canada only.
• Run Time: 186 mins. Rated R.

Format: Director's Cut

Release Date: 11-05-2010

Details: Product description Someone's killing our superheroes. The year is 1985 and super heroes have banded together to respond to the murder of one of their own. They soon uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger. The super heroes fight to stop the impending doom only to find themselves a target for annihilation. But, if our super heroes are gone, who will save us? Special Features Watchmen: Director's Cut Warner Bros. Maximum Movie Mode Watchmen: Focus Points (over 30 minutes) BD Live The Phenomenon: The Comic that Changed Comics Real Super Heroes, Real Vigilantes Mechanics: Technologies of a Fantastic World Music Video: My Chemical Romance Desolation Row Amazon.ca Everybody's favorite graphic novel comes to the screen (after years of rumors and false starts), less a roaring work of adaptation than a respectful and faithful take on a radical original. Watchmen is set in the mid-1980s, a time of increased nuclear tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, as Richard Nixon is enjoying his fifth term as president and the world's superheroes have been forcibly retired. (As you can probably tell, the mix of authentic history and alternate reality is heady.) Things begin with a bang: the mysterious high-rise murder of the Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a masked hero with a checkered past, puts the rest of the retired superhero community on alert. The credits sequence, a series of tableaux that wittily catches us up on crime-fighting backstory, actually turns out to be the high point of the movie. Thereafter we meet the other caped and hooded avengers: the furious Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), the inexplicably naked Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup, amidst much blue-skinned, genital-swinging digital work), Silk Specter II (Malin Akerman), Nite Owl II (Patrick Wilson), and Ozymandias (Matthew Goode). The corkscrewing storytelling, which worked well in the comic book, gives the movie the strange sense of never quite getting in gear, even as some of the episodes are arresting. Director Zack Snyder ( 300) doesn't try to approximate the electric impact of the original (written by Alan Moore--who declined to be credited on the movie--and illustrated by Dave Gibbons) but retains careful fidelity to his source material. That doesn't feel right, even with the generally enjoyable roll-out of anecdotes. Even less forgivable is the blah acting, excepting Jeffrey Dean Morgan (lusty) and Patrick Wilson (mellow). Watchmen certainly fills the eyes, although less so the ears: the song choices are regrettable, especially during an embarrassing mid-air coupling between Nite Owl II and Silk Specter II as they unite their--ah--Roman numerals. In the end it feels as though a huge work of transcription has been successfully completed, which isn't the same as making a full-blooded movie experience. --Robert Horton

UPC: 883929057795

EAN: 0883929057795

Languages: English

Binding: DVD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood