Watchmen (2009)

Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode

Director: Zack Snyder

Genre: thriller, sf, fantasy

Watchmen is the long-awaited graphic novel adaptation that has for a
long time been deemed un-filmable. There have been many different
points over the years where this movie was supposed to be made, which
always ended up not happening. But now Watchmen is finally here in all
its glory, and it's probably the best adaptation possible of this
complex graphic novel. The story takes place in an alternative 1985,
with Nixon beginning his third term as president, and the streets of
New York are gritty, dark, and violent. Within New York lives a group
of costumed heroes that used to be loved by society, but are now hated
by practically everybody. One night a depressed retired hero named The
Comedian is murdered by a masked person that breaks into his apartment.
Another hero named Rorschach, who wears a mask with shifting ink blots,
believes that someone is picking off costumed heroes to begin their own
agenda of destruction. Rorschach begins investigating and hunting down
the person that is responsible for The Comedian's death. Meanwhile we
meet another hero who glows blue, and has almost literally become a
God. His name is Dr. Manhattan, and although he has the power to save
the world he won't do it because he has lost many of his human
emotions. The other main costumed heroes are Night Owl and Silk
Spectre, who begin to fall in love amid the chaos of their secret
lives. Any other attempt to describe the complex plot of this movie
would be nearly impossib…

Trailer Watchmen