I'm sure this is a very exciting movie for long-time Watchmen fans, but I have to say it doesn't do much for a newbie like me. I mean, I do get the story. I understand the inter-relationships among the superheroes and their complications, but that's just about it. Movie is set in an alternate USA, where superheroes and villains walk amongst the common people. Richard Nixon just won his 5th straight term in 1985, and he enacts the Keene Act, which outlawed superheroes forever.So we have this group of superheroes called the Watchmen. They hang up their costumes and go about their normal lives.
One night, Eddie Blade a.k.a. The Comedian gets killed by a mysterious character. Rorschach reckons somebody is out to get them, so he visits his old pals to investigate. To make a long story short, they eventually figured out that Ozymandias is behind all this. The world is on the brink of a nuclear war, and Ozymandias' master plan is to blow up major cities across the world and put the blame on Dr. Manhattan. Millions were killed, but hey, it actually worked. World leaders put aside their differences and goes on the hunt for Dr. Manhattan, who has since teleported to a different part of the universe.
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