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
works by Mark Twain; Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend) from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah) from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; The Invisible Man (Tony Curran) from H.G. Wells book of the same name; and several others. Working together, the odd assortment of characters must combine their powers to defeat a mysterious villain and save the world from certain destruction. Directed by Stephen Norrington (Blade), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen also stars Jason Flemyng, Tom Goodman-Hill, and David Hemmings. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi
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.
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.
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.
... 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?
Quelques moments sont légèrement mieux et même intéressants, mais dans l'ensemble, vous allez complètement gaspiller votre argent et votre temps avec ce film.
If you stripped this film of its effects, not even the platform would remain. Unplug the computer and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen disappears.
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.
Not good CGI or even decent for 2003 CGI, but made for tv CGI that plagues the screen. Then you have the terrible writing, direction, acting and an illogical sense of placing fictional characters in the same world together. Very little time was put into making this even slightly fun or admirable. Whoever was behind the camera had no idea what they were doing. The cinematography is almost laughable and it's surrounded with bad lighting. I feel like i'm only scratching the surface of why this movie is bad, but I think it's basically common knowledge that this sucks. I think the only part I whole-heartedly like is the Jekyll and Hyde aspect; for some reason it just really works and Jason Flemyng is great. I was sadly one of the many who was tricked into watching this movie back when it was released and upon multiple viewings it just becomes more and more obvious how much I don't like this and think it's everything an action movie shouldn't be.
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