After months of buzz, it's finally here. V-Day. To all the geeks out there: Exhale. Your long wait for Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1989 graphic novel to hit the big screen is over. To the Wachowski brothers, producer Joel Silver, Warner Bros., and all others involved: Hold your breath. Your allegorical polemic, which in this politically tense time skewers current world leaders while featuring a terrorist for a hero, could ignite a firestorm.

And to everybody else, please enjoy EW's Official Guide to Understanding the First Big Movie of 2006, by the numbers