There may be embargoes galore on Watchmen reviews as the screenings start, but that doesn’t mean much when I’m pretty sure that Zach Snyder delivered the graphic novel, in motion, to movie screens. If you’re a Watchmen fanboy, saw all the posters, clicked all the photos, watched all the trailers and started picking up on these clips being pulled directly from the comic book, you’ll love Watchmen.

But is it any good?

From Hollywood Elsewhere:

“I’ve seen Watchmen,” he began. “And speaking as a huge admirer and devotee of the graphic novel, the film is a staggering failure. On the plus side, you’ve got a pretty literal adaptation of the source material. It is at times a meticulous and gorgeous recreation of Alan Moore’s original work. Unfortunately it’s an empty, inert, meandering and, yes, boring 2 hours and 45 minutes.

“Oh, and it’s horribly acted throughout. Truly. Malin Akerman (i.e., Silk Spectre II) confirms whatever fears you may have initially felt after The Heartbreak Kid and 27 Dresses. Carla Gugino (the other Silk Spectre) just looks silly. Patrick Wilson (Nite Owl II) is his usual blah self. Only Jackie Earle Haley’s Rorschach and Billy Crudup’s Dr. Manhattan register at all.

Is it possible that a straight-up adaptation of the work, though that’s what everyone was calling for, doesn’t actually come across as a film? Was Alan Moore right when he said Watchmen was an un-adaptable comic that only worked in the graphic novel format?

Time to start asking these questions, I suppose, though I can’t NOT see Watchmen.