Watchmen

Directed by: Zack Snyder
Starring: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Patrick Wilson
Music by: Tyler Bates
Cinematography: Larry Fong
Editing by: William Hoy
Release date: March 6, 2009

Watchmen is a American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder. The story of the film is based on the 1986 comic book limited series Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Set in 1985, the film revolves around the life of a group of former vigilance men as tensions heighten between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the same period an investigation of a conspiracy against them is unveiled and something even more highfaluting and threatening is brought into limelight.

The film is set in an understudy 1985 America where tensions between the US and the Soviet Union is rising every day and the “Doomsday Clock” is set at five minutes to midnight, former superhero-turned vigilante Rorschach discovers that one of his former colleagues has been murdered. As he investigates the murder he uncovers a plot that is intent on killing and discrediting all past and present superheros. As he reconnects with members of his former crime-fighting legion, including Nite Owl II, Silk Spectre II and Dr. Manhattan, they uncover a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy that not only links to their shared past but has catastrophic consequences for the future.

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