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Watchmen 9.30pm beIN Movies Action
OVER two hours of violent and sometimes eye-popping mayhem. A weird superhero adventure set in an alternative version of the ‘80s.
You may not have noticed, but America won the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon stayed in power and the world continued to teeter on the brink of nuclear annihilation. Got that?
Based on a comic book adventure by Alan Moore, so complicated that critics said it could never be filmed. Perhaps they were right.
The author disowned this high octane movie which is brash and occasionally crude.
In the shabby rain-soaked streets of urban America, life is no picnic. The nation’s costume-clad superheroes, known as Watchmen, have been disbanded, locked up or even murdered. A devilish conspiracy is afoot.
A mystery man tries to revive the old gang of costumed weirdoes — Doctor Manhattan is Billy Crudup and other exotic has beens are Silk Spectre, Ozymandias, Nite Owl, Moloch the Mystic, Comedian and so on. Zack Snyder directed in 2009. Empire magazine called it: “A smart, stylish, decent adaptation. A pungently vivid superhero noir, lacquered in blood stains and midnight shadows. A true world-untoitself.”
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