WatchmenWow. I was completely ignorant to the 1986 graphic novel “Watchmen”, but had heard very encouraging news on the movie adaptation through it’s production. Now the trailer has been released, which should also be showing before “The Dark Knight” this weekend, and again I’ll say it: Wow. Plot and trailer below.

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?

Watch the Watchmen in theaters on March 6, 2009.


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