Watchmen

The Watchmen started out great.  Lots of action, and it was following the graphic novel quite well.  The story of former super heroes who were forced to quit by the government, which turned out to be quite a bit more than that.  When you think the movie is only about that, it quickly goes into another direction near the end of the movie.  At approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes, that length was needed for all the material that was in the book.  It was quite faithful until near the end where it went into what pretty much every comic book adaption leads to, making their own endings, changing it to make it more movie friendly perhaps?  I quite enjoyed the movie up until those changes were made, thus making it a very good movie for me, which should have been great. 

3.5 out of 5