Blimey.
It’s actually good.
No, it is. It is crammed full of so much stuff, and it is so faithful to the original, that noticing how the storytelling feels crowded with little beats and not many big ones just reminds you of the perils of an adaptation that is too accurate.
Faithful particularly in the visuals, the framing, the colour palette, etc. – shades of Jackson’s Lord of the RIngs, where even though the story was changed, the map of Middle Earth was held sacrosanct.
Also, about half the film is in slow motion.
Will the uninitiated get it? Dunno. It’s certainly a curiousity. For those who know, however – yeah. This is Watchmen: The Movie, and it is the least bad Watchmen: The Movie possible.
(My favourite bit was the end where the Watchmen team up again to fight the space squid that is trying to destroy New York.)