Director:
Zack Snyder 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?