I had read the source material and had a mixed reaction to it. I thought the art direction was visually stunning, and liked most of the parts featuring Dan, Sally Jupiter, Rorscharch, and Osterman/Dr. Manhattan. But I thought Ozymandias was far too cartoony (extending to the sets and staging of all his scenes looking so stylized as to belong on the 1960s Batman show), the non-prison fight sequences were far too Wuxia style for non-powered masked vigilantes facing off against street thugs, and the soundtrack was so overwrought and ham-fisted that it made the scores of underdog-wins-the-big-game sports movies seem subtle by comparison.

I did think the opening credits sequence was a work of genius and well worth the admission price by itself. (Rumors have been circulating that another director was brought in to film those after Snyder was done.)