Zack Snyder
Watchmen

This movie is bad.

Or rather, this is a bad movie adapted from one of the most beautiful, ingenious, and engaging graphic novels ever. Directed by Zack Snyder, Watchmen is a 2009 film based on the legendary graphic novel by Alan Moore. Snyder manages to make mediocre a film that could potentially have been the Non Plus Ultra of superhero cinema, and all the premises were there. A good cast, a budget of 130 million dollars, and above all, a top-notch screenplay and character psychology that only a genius like Alan Moore could conceive. Snyder had only one task, which was to take this brilliant screenplay and bring it to the screen. And the unfortunate thing is that he succeeded in failing.

The worst thing about the film is the cinematography, which is practically non-existent. Zero play of light and shadow, muddled and artificial... watching this film gives the sensation of watching something fake, and the excuse of wanting to give the film a comic and "dark" tone doesn't hold because in 1989, "Batman" by a certain Tim Burton wanted to give the same "comic and dark" impression, but it was done 10 times better than this. This film is the death of sight and cinematography. Unfortunately, the direction doesn't hold up... elementary mistakes in the field and counter-field, slow-motion effects practically everywhere, rather poor special effects (remember the 130 million budget), and confusing fight scenes, at times almost "amateurish." Moreover, if there were an award for the worst sex scene in a movie, this film would be among the potential winners. Badly shot, even worse acted, and borderline pornographic. In comparison, the one in 300 (also by Snyder) was Oscar-worthy. Essentially, we are faced with a work that has fairly well-made characters and screenplay (thanks to that genius Moore, Snyder has nothing to do with it), but that severely lacks from a purely technical point of view. Among its (few) virtues, we can find a good soundtrack that includes great music classics like The Sound of Silence, or some moments shot slightly better than the rest of the film. But it's really very little compared to the enormous expectations. Snyder confirms himself as one of the worst directors present at the moment, and the worst thing is that his subsequent filmography is even worse than this, which, despite being terrible, can be considered the highest point of his career.