Watchmen

January 28, 2009 at 6:48 am | Posted in film | Leave a comment
Tags: Action, Adventure, Billy Crudup, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Akerman, Matthew Goode, Science Fiction, Watchmen, Zack Snyder

In theaters: March 6, 2009

Genre: Science Fiction, Action and Adventure
Director: Zack Snyder
Cast: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley

A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, the film 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? (from: www.apple.com)