“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? |