“Watchmen” is good, not great, its also not a complete disaster for its $100 million budget.

Its also NOT A MOVIE FOR YOUNG KIDS with its brutally graphic violence, nudity, and adult themes… similiar in nature to “Sin City” (2005).

My review is Spoiler-free !!!

“Watchmen” is, as you would probably expect, visually stunning, with a good story, good writing, really good character development, good cinematography, good acting, good costumes, good sound, mostly good music, good visual effects, good sets, good action sequences, and mostly good makeup.

Okay movie fans.. what Oscar category (that applies to this movie) did I leave out?

Its the category that could have pushed this movie into my favorites….

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REVISED SCORE…. I don’t do this very often, but in the 24 hours since writing this review, I have to revise my rating slightly… down a notch to 6.5… because as good as the acting was and the story was in the first 3/4 of the movie… the last 1/4 became predictable.. and all the tension and suspense that was built up in the first 3/4 of the movie all goes away as the scenes become predictable.

So I still say “SEE IT”, but I have to say its really just a 6.5 out of 10.

If you thought you had a wierd relationship with your neighbor, think again…. Samuel L. Jackson is the neighbor from HELL in this Thriller…

Its too bad that “Unthinkable” quickly pulled out of production in Grand Rapids and will soon be filming in Los Angeles, because we could have had Jackson in another intense role where he blurs the line between good and bad…. and he’s good at being bad in this latest movie “Lakeview Terrace”…

“Lakeview Terrace”

(2008) (rated PG-13 for intense thematic material, violence, sexuality, language and some drug references) (1 hr, 50 min)

Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Ron Glass, Justin Chambers, Jay Hernandez

Genre: Drama/Thriller/Police

The Plot: An LAPD officer (Jackson) will stop at nothing to force out the interracial couple who just moved in next door.

MY TAKE (spoiler free):

Samuel L. Jackson is crazy… well, his character is (more…)