Reviewing Watchmen

One of the segments on my morning radio programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM is a fortnightly look at what’s on at the movies.

Aaron Kamp has been reviewing movies for quite some time and he posts his reviews at Cinemaniac. Every couple of weeks we look at what’s in the cinemas and what’s new on DVD.

Today we talked about the much anticipated super hero movie Watchmen.

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?” – T-Hen

Aaron warns that there is gratuitous violence and sex scenes and that at two hours forty minutes, the film failed to hold his attention. By the comments he heard when leaving the cinema he wasn’t the only one disappointed.

You might want to check out a little more of what Aaron says before heading to the cinema. Listen to Aaron’s review by clicking play on the audio player at the bottom of this post.

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