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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

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Reviews Counted:167

Fresh:27

Rotten:140

Average Rating:4/10

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

Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins

Genre: Action/Adventure

US Box Office: $66,327,144

Synopsis: Sean Connery stars as Allan Quatermain, the world's greatest adventurer, who leads a legion of superheroes the likes of which the world has never seen, in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY... Sean Connery stars as Allan Quatermain, the world's greatest adventurer, who leads a legion of superheroes the likes of which the world has never seen, in THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. Quatermain's extraordinary League is comprised of Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dracula vampiress Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), an invisible man Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran), American secret service agent Sawyer (Shane West), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Jason Flemyng). Richard Roxburgh ("Moulin Rouge") plays the League's enigmatic recruiter, M. The League members are staunch individualists, outcasts in fact, with checkered pasts and singular gifts that have been both blessing and curse. Now they must learn to trust each other and work as a team for the very hope of civilization. With little preparation and no time to lose, they will be transported via Captain Nemo's extraordinary submarine, the Nautilus, to the frontline of defense: Venice, Italy. There, a masked madman known as the Fantom plans to sabotage a conference of world leaders by setting off a domino chain of explosions, sinking the entire city. The threat is catastrophic, the risks are staggering. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen has 9 hours to save the world. Based on the acclaimed comic books by Alan Moore ("From Hell") and Kevin O'Neill, the film is directed by Stephen Norrington ("Blade") from a screenplay by James Dale Robinson. Don Murphy ("From Hell", "Natural Born Killers") and Trevor Albert ("Groundhog Day", "Bedazzled") are the producers, and Sean Connery and Mark Gordon ("Saving Private Ryan") are executive producers. The co-producer is Michael Nelson. Principal photography on the 20-week shoot occurred almost entirely in Prague, with additional shooting in Malta and Los Angeles. [More]

Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Shane West

Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Shane West, Stuart Townsend, Jason Flemyng, Tony Curran

Director: Stephen Norrington

Director: Stephen Norrington
Screenwriter: James Dale Robinson
Producer: Don Murphy
Composer: Trevor Jones
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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... with few exceptions, the cast is excellent but the story is terrible... "League" still isn't as bad as Sean Connery's "The Avengers."

Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | comment Comment
08/18/03
Kevin A. Ranson
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com

have we descended so far in American filmmaking that we must now literally scrape the bottom of the superhero barrel

Full Review Source: Norman Transcript | comment Comment
08/15/03
Jim Chastain
Jim Chastain
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N/R

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08/02/03
Boston Phoenix
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Only halfway into the summer of 2003, and the most dreadful studio blockbuster of the year finally reaches the multiplexes.

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07/29/03
David Keyes
David Keyes
Cinemaphile.org

Watching LXG is a lot like looking at a set of bad one-hour photos. Blurry, streaked, dark, and incoherent.

Full Review Source: Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | comment Comment
07/23/03
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Audrey Rock-Richardson
Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

Anemic and forgettable, but not entirely unlikable.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
07/22/03
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
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07/21/03
Mark R. Leeper
Mark R. Leeper
rec.arts.movies.reviews

a dull concoction of literary antiheroes that brings back unwelcome memories of torturous high-school English classes, where even bloodsuckers, shape shifters and buccaneers somehow managed to bore us to tears

Full Review Source: Peterborough This Week | comment Comment
07/21/03
Mike Sage
Mike Sage
Peterborough This Week

...I found the film to be charmingly fun.

Full Review Source: Talking Pictures (U.S.) | comment Comment
07/21/03
Tony Toscano
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)

Would have been much better with Darrell Hammond as Quatermain.

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07/20/03
Stephen Himes
Stephen Himes
Film Snobs

I would probably intensely dislike The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen if not for the fact that I'm so greatly amused by it.

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07/18/03
Mark Dujsik
Mark Dujsik
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A summer blockbuster as overstuffed as a WWE locker room, but with none of the fun and all of the odor.

Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine) | comment Comment
07/18/03
Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith
Bangor Daily News (Maine)

It seems as though the effects team was often sleeping on the job.

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07/17/03
Tyler Hanley
Tyler Hanley
Palo Alto Weekly

The movie is extraordinary mostly for the sheer wastefulness of it all, the work of little boys who've never outgrown their love of blowing things up.

Full Review Source: State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) | comment Comment
07/17/03
Paul Povse
Paul Povse
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)

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07/17/03
Susan Granger
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N/R

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07/16/03
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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07/16/03
Brian Orndorf
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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.

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07/16/03
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Salon.com

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07/16/03
Kit Bowen
Kit Bowen
Hollywood.com

Simply put, it's too much of a good thing.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
07/16/03
Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
 
 
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