Watchmen opens this Friday, but reviews are already starting to trickle in over at the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Though it currently has an overall T-Meter rating of 73%, looking at only the reviews from the top critics gives it a rating of only 14%.

That’s not good.

Devin Gordon from Newsweek:

Snyder has appropriated Moore’s doomsday themes without any sense of how to animate them. That’s the trouble with loyalty. Too little, and you alienate your core fans. Too much, and you lose everyone — and everything — else.

Anthony Lane from the New Yorker:

Watchmen,  like V for Vendetta, harbors ambitions of political satire, and, to be fair, it should meet the needs of any leering nineteen-year-old who believes that America is ruled by the military-industrial complex, and whose deepest fear—deeper even than that of meeting a woman who requests intelligent conversation—is that the Warren Commission may have been right all along.

For what it’s worth, Anthony Lane seems to hate most movies no matter if they are good or not.  For instance, he gave Slumdog Millionaire a crappy review and it just won the Oscar for Best Picture.  Go figure.

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