Review: Watchmen

After 90 minutes of tedious backstory, the film only threatens to get into gear when the Watchmen finally get into theirs.

But don't get too excited, after about half an hour of Zach Snyder doing his slow bit/fast bit thing in the action scenes - its right back to laboured exposition till the end.

Rorschach's raspy voiceover features heavily and is worse than anything The Dark Knight has to offer, quickly making you wish he'd been lobbed out of the window instead.

In the end Watchmen simply suffers from trying to fit in too much into too little time. Scrapping the parallel storylines and flashbacks may have made for a less faithful adaptation, but it would've been a hell of a lot more of an enjoyable one.