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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

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17

Average Rating: 4/10
Reviews Counted: 176
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 146

Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution.

13

Average Rating: 3.9/10
Critic Reviews: 38
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 33

Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution.

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54

liked it
Average Rating: 3/5
User Ratings: 395,523

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Movie Info

Based on the comic book miniseries by Alan Moore, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen takes place in an alternate universe where the characters of several literary classics exist in reality. As if that weren't enough, they've been assembled together in 1900 by Queen Victoria as a team of evil-fighting heroes. Among them are Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery) from H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines; Mina Harker (Peta Wilson) from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Tom Sawyer (Shane West) from several

Dec 16, 2003

$66.3M

20th Century Fox

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All Critics (177) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (33) | Rotten (150) | DVD (31)

A stiff.

April 26, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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Despite Sean Connery and some impressive 19th century gloom, this big-screen translation of Alan Moore's culty comic-book series falls to earth with an incoherent splat.

July 16, 2003 Full Review Source: Salon.com | Comment
Salon.com
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Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.

July 15, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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This film is odd, loud, unintentionally funny and quite awful.

July 14, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | Comment
Ebert & Roeper
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This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision.

July 11, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen just plain reeks.

July 11, 2003 Comment
Washington Post
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Enough deaths here for a more restrictive rating.

December 28, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

Despite giant lapses in logic and time period inaccuracies, turn off your common sense, sit back and enjoy this entertaining, adventurous, bright, action-packed tale with solid performances from its immensely talented cast.

April 29, 2009 Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | Comment
Cinema Crazed

Without a strong, juicy villain -- one that we love to hate -- the film lacks an important ingredient.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | Comment
Urban Cinefile

This grouping of extraordinary egos brushes against the personality flaws and clashes that initially make the film intriguing, but then the film slips into a special-effects extravaganza with a monstrous, rampaging Mr. Hyde headlining.

August 7, 2008 Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | Comment
Sacramento News & Review

Easily one of the worst films I've ever seen.

July 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Big Picture Big Sound | Comment
Big Picture Big Sound

Sean Connery is the only one who commands our attention.

April 15, 2007 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis | Comment
Movie Metropolis

So little of real consequence is at stake that you'll have plenty of time to notice how the names on not one but two tombstones are misspelled.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

No matter how troubled the shoot was, the movie was shanghaied from the off, courtesy of Hollywood's dependence on market-defined 'success'.

December 30, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | Comment
Empire Magazine

... the effects and sets are marvellously fantastical and there are one or two neat comical allusions to the heroes' literary roots. But where's the excitement, the thrills, the tension, the style?

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

The problem with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the filmmakers tried to give everyone a main storyline and ended up diluting everything.

December 6, 2005 Full Review Source: Film Threat | Comments (2)
Film Threat

This one isn't for everyone, but it's still good in my book.

July 5, 2005 Full Review Source: Bullz-Eye.com | Comment
Bullz-Eye.com

The League is a project that was doomed from the moment the studio threw out Alan Moore comic and decided that they knew better.

March 5, 2005 Full Review Source: NYC Film Critic | Comment
NYC Film Critic

Quelques moments sont légèrement mieux et même intéressants, mais dans l'ensemble, vous allez complètement gaspiller votre argent et votre temps avec ce film.

December 17, 2004 Comment

Just don't think too much between the super battles. This is, after all, very comic book.

October 15, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Repugnant.

October 7, 2004 Full Review Source: tonymedley.com | Comment

[Director] Norrington has spent too much effort trying to include too much of the comic book.

September 20, 2004 Comment
Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

If you stripped this film of its effects, not even the platform would remain. Unplug the computer and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen disappears.

July 6, 2004 Full Review Source: F5 (Wichita, KS) | Comment
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Audience Reviews for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

I really really wanted to like this movie, but somehow it turned out super-boring, kind of confusing , and poorly held together.

September 26, 2011
jarobb3

Super Reviewer

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is easily one of the worst big budget action movies ever made and just an all around terrible movie. It has interesting elements and qualities that make it watchable, but for the most part it's just all bad. The most obvious flaw is the almost inconceivably excessive use of CGI.

November 28, 2009
ythelastman89

Super Reviewer

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