Movie Review: Watchmen - Page 4

The plan is to release a director's cut with another hour of footage, mixing in footage that will appear in the forthcoming Tales of the Black Freighter DVD release, presumably along with some of the connecting scenes that are absent in the theatrical release, so perhaps this issue will be addressed then. For now, all I can judge is the theatrical cut, which at times felt like there were "insert scene here" moments that took me out of the film. It's not that Watchmen is a bad film, there was some truly thrilling moments and enough of the original work to be worthwhile. But when you're adapting perhaps the greatest achievement in the history of a medium, merely "worthwhile" equates to "disappointing". There's enough right with this film that I look forward to watching the extended version on Blu-ray when it comes out, but not enough that I have any desire to see the theatrical cut again.

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