If all the world’s citizens have access to free and unlimited resources, there will be no more wars, he theorizes. Ozymandias, who has become rich off the marketing of his superhero image, says he is close to finding a source of free energy. (After the Comedian is killed, a hired gun takes a crack at Ozymandias.)Īt the same time, there are good thinking points here about the question of how to stop nuclear annihilation. Rorschach’s journal entries serve as hardboiled voiceovers as he investigates who is killing retired members of the Watchmen. I’m impressed with how “Watchmen” has fate-of-mankind stakes while spending a lot of its time – to its credit – in the “Sin City”-esque world of Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley). I can’t let this fictional Nixon entirely off the hook, because he’s in the same boat as the actual 1980s present, Ronald Reagan, in that he’s overseeing a Cold War against the USSR – and often seeming helpless to do anything about it.Īll 9 ‘Scream’ movies and TV seasons, ranked However, “Watchmen” is broader than supervillains springing from groups of superheroes who fall asleep at the wheel. The Watchmen’s failure to self-govern will in fact become the movie’s overarching theme, once we learn what Adrian/Ozymandias (Matthew Goode) has been up to all along. Dan just kind of shakes his head in shame at his colleague’s behavior. Indeed, it’s something the Comedian’s fellow Watchmen fail to do. Going against what I’d expect, Nixon isn’t a flat-out villain here, and indeed anything he does to rein in killers is hard to quibble with. But the Comedian’s gunning down of street partiers might be among the reasons why President Nixon – on his fifth term in this alternate 1985 – outlaws superheroes. The story – written by David Hayter and Alex Tse - is told out of order, with flashbacks focusing on the six individual Watchmen, probably mirroring the source material. He’s protecting the citizens “from themselves,” he explains to Dan/Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), although even that lame rationalization is probably just an excuse. Not much of a hero even in his prime, when he was attempting to rape fellow Watchman Sally/Silk Spectre (Carla Gugino), the Comedian opens fire on citizens partying in the street and breaking curfew during a police strike. The spray-painted phrase “Who watches the Watchmen?” – a critique of superheroes being above the law (and a real-world metaphor for people in power being above the law) – pointedly applies to Edward/The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Negan on “The Walking Dead”). Stars: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino Writers: Dave Gibbons, David Hayter, Alex Tse
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