The time i felt like a movie critic

I went to see Watchmen and from the very first minutes of the movie it was a lot to take in. Sometimes when you are watching a movie and you get a little bit lost at the begining trying to set up the characters in your mind you are confident that you will eventually catch up within the first half hour of the movie. But in this case it gets a little bit more complicated, first you are introduced with a dozen of characters and that makes it hard to identify the main ones. Then you are situated in the 80s in an alternative reality where the US has won the Vietnam war and Nixon is still president, so you have to keep track of all the incidents that have changed the history to get a clear picture of the setting in which the movie is taken place. And if youve managed to sussed out all that, then you have to follow a timeline that goes back and forth in form of flashbacks from each main character. Being said that, i have to say that i really like this movie, it is filled with details and dialogues that, in order to fully appreciate, you have to revisit the movie.
After watching Watchmen i read the graphic novel and i was amazed about how respectful Zack Snyder was with Alan Moores work, yet Snyder added elements that made the movie a bit more dynamic, even though it nevers achieves a really good pace or rythm.
At the end, Watchmen comes out as a bit hollow,empty or cold. It deals with issues that are not as relevant as their were in the 80's when Moore wrote it, and Snyder dehumanizes some of the characters, maybe because he was worryed in protecting other parts of the work from the movie studio.
For a comic book it obviously stands out as a different and more interesting work than most comic books, and as a movie it is an astonishing piece that at the very least would intrigue you enough to read the comic.