This city is afraid of me. I've seen its true face.
| Cast |
Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino, Matt Frewer |
| Director |
Zack Snyder |
| Screenplay | David Hayter, Alex Tse, from the graphic novel by Dave Gibbons and Alan Moore |
| Music | Tyler Bates |
| Cinematography | Larry Fong |
| Editing | William Hoy |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2009 |
| Produced by | Warner Bros. PIctures, Paramount Pictures, Legendary Pictures, Lawrence Gordon Productions, DC Comics |
Official Site | IMDB page
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| Genre | Action |
| Language | Infrequent, strong |
| Nudity | Infrequent, mild to strong |
| Sex | Infrequent, fairly strong |
| Violence | Frequent, strong, graphic |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | None |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 |  |
| Die Burger Francois Bloemhof | 15 |  |
| iAfrica.com Nils van der Linden  The ambitious Watchmen is no disaster — like the heroes themselves it's merely flawed. | 10 | |
| The Citizen Peter Feldman | 12 |  |
| Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 10 | |
| 24.com Niel Bekker Watchmen is perhaps one of the first truly worthwhile films in the post-Oscars pack. | 15 | |
| Metacritic.com 17 critics | 13 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 78 critics | 12 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Visually powerful, intense and uncompromising, Watchmen is an epic comic-book film whose technical and thematic strengths are tempered somewhat by its narrative shortcomings. | 13 | |
Average .. 61% | 12 | |