Agreed. The first half-two thirds were amazing, truely what I'd hoped for, then it went tits up over the course of about 15 mintues when they stopped using the dialogue from the comic and changed the plot (my missus actually leaned over in the cinema and said: "how has it gone shit so quickly?). Changing the ending was pointless - I was well looking forward to seeing the alien squid attack! The new ending lacked the impact of the ending from the book, it was like nothing major had happened - the comic shows the total devastation, bodies in the street ect, all the film had was a smallish blue explosion. No back-story for Ozymandias, so no one gave a shit about his motivations, no death of Hollis, trucated version of Rorschach's back-story - all added to my feeling that the movie lacked something the book has: incredible depth. On the upside - it looked awesome, good cast, and Rorschach was as badass as I'd hoped. Doc Manhattan was ace, Silk Spetre was hot, the action (albeit shoe-horned in) was excellent. I'll go see it again, but I tending to agree with Terry Gilliam - it's impossible to really the capture the back on the big screen...