Watchmen (2017)

Watchmen is a 2016 American superhero film directed by Spike Jonze, based on the 1986-87 DC Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. It stars an ensemble cast of Emile Hirsch, Michael Cera, Richard Madden, Emilia Clarke , Jack O'Connell and  Christian Bale. A dark take on the superhero genre, the film is set in an alternate history in the year 1985 at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, as a group of mostly retired American superheroes investigates the murder of one of their own before uncovering an elaborate and deadly conspiracy, while their moral limitations are challenged by the complex nature of the circumstances