In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so discover a deeper and far more diabolical plot.
"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?"
It's the 1980's and it's a different world. Superheroes have been outlawed, the only ones still in operation under direct control of the United States government. Suddenly, those heroes both still in action and retired find themselves targets by an unseen enemy, who wants to kill them one by one.
A group of heroes, forced into retirement a decade before are called together once again to investigate the murder of one of their own. What they discover an age-old conspiracy to change the balance of power in a world not different from our own.
An adaptation of Alan Moore's landmark comic book series, Watchmen is a story set in an alternative 1985, where the world is ticking closer to the brink of nuclear war, and a plot to eliminate a band of ex-crimefighters is instigated, but why? and by whom? It is up to two of those ex-crimefighters to investigate the plot that seems to go beyond the unthinkable.
Cast:
- Malin Akerman - Laurie Jupiter / Silk Spectre II
- Billy Crudup - Dr. Manhattan / Jon Osterman
- Matthew Goode - Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias
- Jackie Earle Haley - Walter Kovacs / Rorschach
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan - Edward Blake / The Comedian
- Patrick Wilson - Dan Dreiberg / Nite Owl II
- Carla Gugino - Sally Jupiter / Silk Spectre
- Matt Frewer - Edgar Jacobi / Moloch the Mystic
- Stephen McHattie - Hollis Mason / Nite Owl
- Laura Mennell - Janey Slater
- Rob LaBelle - Wally Weaver
- Gary Houston - John McLaughlin
- James M. Connor - Pat Buchanan (as James Michael Connor)
- Mary Ann Burger - Eleanor Clift
- John Shaw - Doug Roth