In a summer of big-budget sequels, prequels, remakes and homages, no film is more ambitiously derivative -- or dramatically unsatisfying -- than Stephen Norrington's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
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07/11/03
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... [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Shane West
Director: Stephen Norrington
Reviews for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
101 - 120 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
All in all, just another summer's day at the multiplex. But the outlandish premise alone gives it a leg up on overly familiar scenarios about time-traveling robots, gamma radiation and the like.
07/11/03
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen feels overly busy, unwieldy and hollow.
07/11/03
When one of the main triumphs of your overproduced action movie is an ensemble member's enunciation, that's a sure sign you didn't make something very extraordinary.
07/11/03
The writing is terrible. There is no tension, no mystery, no excitement, no adventure.
07/11/03
Because it successfully marries great literary classics with contemporary comic books, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is in a summer movie league of its own.
07/11/03
Operates on a similar principle as Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle: Keep throwing things at the audience and edit the action sequences with a Vegematic.
07/11/03
The concept is high but everything else is merely fair to middling, one more or less watchable B-movie in megabucks clothing.
07/11/03
Basically, we're watching all of these famous names pasted onto a lot of anonymous grade-B acting and limply staged fight scenes.
07/11/03
Top Critic[The filmmakers] assume that we viewers have absolutely no knowledge of these characters whatsoever, and that we're basically walking tree stumps.
07/11/03
Turn the page on this one.
07/11/03
Top CriticGentlemen is not in a league of its own, but in a league with too many others.
07/11/03
Yet another ill-considered, explosions-driven summer movie that fails to deliver.
07/11/03
Lacks the sense of self-awareness, self-deprecation and smarts that make the comics tale so memorable.
07/11/03
A dreary and disheveled adventure that qualifies as one of summer's bigger disappointments.
07/11/03
This film by Stephen Norrington doesn't soar nearly enough above ordinary.
07/11/03
Bad special effects would be survivable if the characters were captivating.
07/11/03
Just when it seems about to become a real corker of an adventure movie, [the movie] plunges into incomprehensible action, idiotic dialogue, inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy.
07/11/03
Top CriticWhat a riveting movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen might have been! And what a rickety mess it turned out to be when the people responsible lost faith in the origin of the material!
07/11/03
A well-intentioned but ultimately disastrous attempt to throw a pulpy new spin on one of English literature's most revered figures.
07/11/03
Latest News for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
December 14, 2007:
Steve Norrington to Direct Clash of the Titans Remake
In his first directorial effort since 2003's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Steve Norrington has signed on to helm Warner Bros.' Clash of the Titans remake. More...
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March 21, 2007:
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