Genre: Movies > Thriller

Jackie Earle Haley, who plays Walter Kovacs aka Rorschach in Watchmen, talks about his role in the film.

 "His childhood was incredibly tough with a mother who is a prostitute who neglected him and gave him a rough childhood which tweaked his sense of reality," he says.

Kovacs' biggest concern is for the victim, insists Walter and adds, "He's protecting his childhood, but he is also protecting the victim because he has a connection knowing that the person is also being victimized the way he himself was. Even after devoting his life to that cause, the police don't like him, citizens don't like him and none of the watchmen like him."

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Movie Story

Watchmen rolls back the years to 1985, where an alternate America is attuned to superheroes saving the day, and the tension between USA and the Soviet Union still threatens to destroy the world.

When masked vigilante Rorschach's former colleague is murdered, he reconnects with his former crime-fighting team of superheroes, and uncovers a disturbing conspiracy which threatens to bring forth a catastrophic future.  

Based on the well known graphic novel, Watchmen is directed by Zack Snyder (of 300 fame). The cast playing the superheroes includes such names as Malin Akerman as Laurie Juspeczyk, Billy Crudup as Jon Osterman, Matthew Goode as Adrian Veidt, Jackie Earle Haley as Walter Kovacs, Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Edward Blake and Patrick Wilson as Dan Dreiberg.

 

Incidentally, Watchmen was originally published by DC comics as a 12-comic book series between 1986 and 1987, before subsequently being collected into a trade paperback. It is the only graphic novel to win the prestigious Hugo Award and to be named among Time magazine's 100 Best English Language Novels from 1923.

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