One more bloated effects-o-rama lumbering through a formula plot without much zest, imagination or awareness of its own absurdity.
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07/10/03
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: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
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
Whether League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is true to the comics upon which it's based, I can't say. On its own, however, this film is very, very ordinary.
07/10/03
Gentlemen may be a better movie than other Connery fantasy-action films like The Avengers, but then again a glass of muddy water looks good to someone just coming in from the desert.
07/10/03
Top CriticA wonderfully old-school adventure.
07/10/03
These guys have dumbed down a comic book.
07/10/03
Top CriticA smart concept that's been dumbed down.
07/10/03
Young boys may appreciate the flick's cool gadgets and gee-whiz sensibility, but fans of Alan Moore's graphic novel will be appalled. The rest of us will just be bored.
07/10/03
This is Wild Wild West meets Avengers bad.
07/10/03
swings freely between overwrought psychodrama and overblown fantasy ...The effects here often look like rush jobs...
07/10/03
The CGI's not visually up to 2003 standards and you aren't provided with enough backstory to understand all the nuances.
07/10/03
Extraordinary? Balderdash!
07/10/03
When a film’s creative decisions are dictated by the marketing department, the extraordinary quickly becomes hum-drum.
07/10/03
Offers some appealing elements -- exceptionally beautiful design, atypical characters, literacy and an intriguing intellectual basis -- that are ultimately engulfed by explosions, effects and an affiliated ponderousness.
07/10/03
Top CriticSorry Bruce, Peter and Clark. Your ancestors are back, and their pedigrees are convincing enough for a sequel.
07/10/03
For those of us expecting a smart action film where knowledge of these characters would broaden our movie experience, disappointment looms large.
07/10/03
Summer's smartest, most exhilarating action attraction.
07/10/03
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen may end up being the film that defined the season: underwritten and overwritten, effects-driven, inspired by a comic book and unlikely to drive those on- the-fence audiences back into theaters anytime soon.
07/10/03
The experience of watching this movie is a marginal and moderately disappointing one.
07/10/03
That an actor exec produced such a film is a sad commentary on where we stand in early-21st century filmmaking.
07/10/03
Top Critic...may get pegged as a poor man's `X-Men,' but calling it the serious version of the Ben Stiller superhero spoof `Mystery Men' would be more accurate.
07/10/03
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December 14, 2007:
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