Wow, I feel like I'm gonna come across as a defender here.
I thoroughly enjoyed 'Watchmen' last night. Most of the criticisms I'd been reading were that it was overloaded, bloated, didn't flow and turgid. But I felt fully immersed and never felt the film dragged, or felt that the film felt like a 2 3/4hr film.
I did read the novel over the last year, and while I feel overall it is better at transferring the nuances of the themes, I do feel that Snyder did get a couple of themes spot on. Namely that so-called heroics are futile at best, because human nature itself is so unpredictable that to attempt to 'right wrongs' will never truly change things. And the fact that Adrian's ultimate goal of peace comes through intimidation and fear, not by any change in human nature.
I might be the only one who was ok with Goode as Ozymandias. I think he nailed him as a vain playboy, and later a man consumed by his own hubris. And Wilson WAS Night Owl perfecly.
In the end, I do feel that the film doesn't stay with me that much, but I can't deny that for me, for its running time, I was completely involved. The closest film it reminded me of was 'Blade Runner' in fact.
I'd give it around a B+ overall.