Watchmen Reviews are Mixed

Watchmen will no doubt rule the box office this weekend, but are the Watchmen reviews any good? Check out some of the Watchmen reviews, which are a mixed bag, and let us know - will you be lining up to see it this weekend?

Metacritic.com gives Watchmen a score of 57 out of 100, based on reviews from 38 critics. Some Watchmen review highlights:

Kyle Smith, New York Post - Score 100: “Director Zack Snyder’s cerebral, scintillating follow-up to “300″ seems, to even a weary filmgoer’s eye, as fresh and magnificent in sound and vision as “2001″ must have seemed in 1968, yet in its eagerness to argue with itself, it resembles “A Clockwork Orange.”"

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times - Score 100: “It’s a compelling visceral film — sound, images and characters combined into a decidedly odd visual experience that evokes the feel of a graphic novel. It seems charged from within by its power as a fable; we sense it’s not interested in a plot so much as with the dilemma of functioning in a world losing hope.”

Richard Corliss, Time - Score 80: “Watchmen has moments of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring flesh to their fantasies.”

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly - Score 67: “Even Watchmen fanatics may be doomed to a disappointment that results from trying to stay THIS faithful to a comic book.”

Devin Gordon, Newsweek - Score 40: “Speaking as an admirer, but not an apostle, of the graphic novel, I thought the Watchmen movie was confusing, maddeningly inconsistent and fighting a long, losing battle to establish an identity of its own.”