Cast:
Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup,
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie
Synopsis
A
complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an
alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the
fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday
Clock”
– which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet
Union
– is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of
his
former colleagues is murdered, the washed up but no less determined
masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and
discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his
former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired
superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach
glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their
shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission
is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?
