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Watchmen film is huge, awkward, and pitch-perfect

Sun, Mar 8th, 2009 |

Fans of Alan Moore's wonderful-if over-analyzed-graphic novel Watchmen need not worry: the spirit and soul of the work has been brought to the screen by director Zach Snyder and team. There were multiple places during the nearly three-hour film where one is struck by the sheer audacity of the thing, like Rorschach, this is a piece of art that doesn't do much compromising.

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