The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Movie
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TAGLINES
Prepare for the Extraordinary
The power of seven become a league of one
A Rogue. A Scientist. A Spy. A Hunter. A Vampire. A beast. An Immortal
Waiting To Be Impressed? You're About To Be.
An Adventure in a League of Its Own
This summer, Join the League.
This summer, the bad will fight for good.
A hunter... Live for the chase.
An invisible man... The unseen assassin.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde... The devil inside.
A vampire... A killer with a kiss.
Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain (Connery) leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as "The Fantom." This "League" comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo (Shah), vampiress Mina Harker (Wilson), an invisible man named Rodney Skinner (Curran), American secret service agent Tom Sawyer (West), the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray (Townsend), and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Flemyng).
| Jason Flemyng | Dr. Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde |
| Sean Connery | Allan Quatermain |
| Stuart Townsend | Dorian Gray |
| Naseeruddin Shah | Captain Nemo |
| Peta Wilson | Mina Harker |
| Tony Curran | Rodney Skinner (The Invisible Man) |
| Shane West | Tom Sawyer |
| Richard Roxburgh | M |
| Max Ryan | Dante |
| Tom Goodman-Hill | Sanderson Reed |
| David Hemmings | Nigel |
| Terry O'Neill | Ishmael |
| Rudolf Pellar | Draper |
| Robert Willox | Constable Dunning |
| Robert Orr | Running Officer |
| Stephen Norrington |
5.40 out of 10 (26395 votes)
Visitor Reviews
A relatively good rendering of the graphic novel
posted on 22 Aug 2009Having heard about the movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I rushed to get the
graphic novel, which I must say is one of the most intelligent graphic novels ever
written. So you can understand that my expectations were high when the film came out.To be frank, I was not sure how well it would translate onto film because of the
numerous references the book makes to Victoriana characters of novels past.
Well, now
that I have seen the film, I was relatively impressed with its translation to film.Let's start with casting. The perfect: Connery as Quartermain (though the original drug
addicted Quartermain would have made the film more interesting), Shah as Nemo,
Townsend as Dorian Gray, and Curran as the Invisible man. The good: Wilson as Mina;
a little more masculine for what I expected out of Mina Murray/Harker, but works well in
fight scenes. The OK: Thewlis as Jekyll/Hyde. I actually liked Thewlis as Jekyll, but I
really didn't like the way they made Hyde into a wuss. If you read the novel, Hyde is
more crude, disgusting, but intelligent; furthermore, he fights with a no holds barred
attitude with extremely gory results. The Hyde in this film was just too nice and fought
more like a boxer than a beast he should be. Fans of the novel WILL be disappointed in
this Hyde, but the CGI (if used) to create Hyde is impressive. The Forgettable: West as
Tom Sawyer; really, they could have gotten any young hunk to play this character.
Would have been more interesting if Tom was up to more adult pranks.As for the story, while not completely following the graphic novel word for word, it does
follow the pattern of the novel, and that is pretty commendable considering the detail
that the movie tries to hold. I guess we can't have a drug addicted Quartermain or a
savage Hyde if the film was to be PG-13. And there was some great insertions of
victoriana trivia and references throughout the film; once it comes out on DVD, it would
be great to annotate this film as an extra feature. Furthermore, the character
development was better than I expected for the size of the cast. What I did not like was
the spelling out of inferences in this film; would have been a much smarter film if it left
this out. The fun is definitely in the action, which reminds me of the old 30s and 40s
films. It could have been slowed down a bit.My recommendation? Go see it. It's pretty original, fun for the movie goer, and does a
relatively good job of adapting a complex graphic novel onto screen. Cudos to Steve
Norrington; should get him to direct more graphic novel/comic book adaptations.
LXG nothing like what it was compared to...X-Men
posted on 18 Aug 2009I work at a movie theater and got to see it a day before everyone. Some people I work with watched LXG and it was a big bore fest. All we did was want to fall asleep. On the little lobby cards that tell what the movie was about and what it compares to they had X-Men and they compared it all wrong.
They shouldn't have compared it to X-men at all. X-Men was an awesome movie, LXG was boring and dull. It had a few parts that were cool with it's action. But we all were about ready to fall asleep, it made us tired. I don't recommend seeing it unless you want to take a nap.
An Extraordinary Bore
posted on 10 Aug 2009(spoilers within)It is only extraordinary in its blandness and implausibility. Scenes that are meant to thrill do nothing but; the packed house of Saturday evening moviegoers with which I witnessed this waste of celluloid sat through the movie with barely a chuckle or a gasp. One can only suppose this is also a reflection on the ease at which the audience accepted a Titanic-sized vessel successfully navigating the canals of Venice, or a souped-up 1930s automobile meandering through London when it belonged in Shanghai during the opening scenes of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. And the blase acting is more suited to any George Lucas picture of the past 17 years.Watching two hours of Ron Popeil informercials provides more thrills than this so-called "action-adventure" movie. If you have HBO, Starz or Showtime at this time next summer and find yourself unable to sleep, find a channel showing this movie and turn it on. It'll work better than Sominex.
Poor acting, poor plot, waste of time
posted on 08 Aug 2009Nothing in this movie seems to fit together. The main characters aren't interacting. The movie does not create his own tempo and pace. As to say,this poor product of movie making is no more or less a collection of barely connected scenes of unmotivated acting. The special effects should have to be extraordinary, but lost the point. Besides some nice pictures, the special effects were annoyingly visible.
In Her Majesty's Service
posted on 08 Aug 2009I've found it fascinating over the past 20 years that with the advances made in special effects techniques, comic book heroes have had an explosion in popularity on the screen. The films, good, bad or indifferent seem to make money with a built in market. We seem to get a few of them every year with accompanying merchandise.One I liked very much was based on the idea of combining a whole bunch of literary characters from the 19th century into The League for Extraordinary Gentlemen. Some heroes, some villains, some troubled people all get together in the service of the British Empire to find out just who wants to brew a lot of trouble among the European Powers.It's quite a crew they've assembled, Allen Quatermaine, Mina Harker, Dorian Grey, Captain Nemo, The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Hyde, and visiting from America Tom Sawyer. They're in for some high adventure, the kind kids eagerly used to read about in the books these people are found in.The League of Extraordinary Gentleman has a kind of infectious charm that I find irresistible. A lot of that has to do with Sean Connery as Allen Quartermaine, fresh from the continent of Africa, and leader of this band. As of today, this film has been the last screen appearance of the man some word argue is the biggest international star the movies have right now. I particularly like the scenes that Connery has with Shane West who plays Special Agent Tom Sawyer of the United States Secret Service. I'll bet you didn't know where Tom Sawyer would wind up when he grew up and left the Mississippi. Seems perfectly logical watching this film. Quartermaine lost a son and buried two wives and he bonds with young Sawyer. He even warns him against romancing Mina Harker, played by Peta Wilson whose vampiric proclivities might be a bit much for a young man to handle.I'm sure The League for Extraordinary Gentlemen got a lot of young viewers going to see it. If any of them get curious enough to read the books these characters are found in, than this film will have done a great service. By the way, the chief villain when he's unmasked is yet another villain found in a series of classic books from that time period and one of the recruited league in fact is a traitor.I won't say, you'll have to buy or rent the video/DVD.
Saturday Matinee the LXG way.
posted on 06 Aug 2009Well, I just came out of the theater after having viewed LXG. First off, I do not think it was a bad movie. While i would not recommend it as a must see movie, I certainly didn't find it to be a waste of my time. Sure, some plot points could have been developed more/better, but hey, I didn't walk in expecting Shakespeare. Though I haven't read the graphic novel on which the film is based, I have read that both the graphic novel and the movie take place in a reality alternate from both out history and our literary canons; which means that even though Stoker never wrote Mina as turning into a vampire, it's okay for LXG to take the license to do so. And so on and so forth.Yes, it would have been nice to see Connery make his character a little more swashbuckling. But maybe that was the writing. I almost loathe watching anything with Peta Wilson, but i found here surprisingly interesting in this movie. In fact, other than Tom Sawyer's character seeming a bit incomprehensible, I think the other Leaguers were pretty interesting. But what was the deal with the bad guy, "M"? I thought his M.O. was even more pointless and less fleshed-out out than any of the flattest Bond villains I've had the displeasure of seeing. It was just a badly written character.Just a word or two about the Mr. Hyde F/X, the CGI wizards of the Hulk could take a clue. Sure, both characters were CGI rendered, but Mr. Hyde's size carried a credible degree of mass and weight, whereas the Hulk often moved as if mass-less, making him seem too two dimensional.All in all, I give the movie a respectable 6/10.
Loved it!
posted on 04 Aug 2009Okay so I agree that a lot of it was easy to predict and some of the acting made me laugh. Really who cares it was something different for a change and I loved it. Again it's just a movie intended for our amusement. If I have to see another movie about a psycho terrorizing people and they contact one lone person to unravel the mystery I'll die. Movies have become so cliché its hard to choke yet another one down. This was just fun and unusual and I'd watch it anyday. Besides the fact that it has new faces blended with old ones which made it interesting. I thought each of the actors played their character well. Nemo was a believable hero and scientist and dang I want to be part of his crew anyday. I loved that the Nautalus was so ellegantly decorated for someone who was just a pirate. Sad I haven't seen many of these actors in other movies they did a great job and I'd love to see where they were going with the ending back in Africa. Ahhh! The suspense.
Better than the critics say
posted on 02 Aug 2009I was a bit surprised when I got home from the movie and saw all the bad reviews it's gotten. I found it quite enjoyable, with humorous dialogue. And, if some parts were a bit corny, they were few, and were funny enough that I thought they were intentional.I do hope they make the sequel still, even with the bad press. I know most of them are signed on for it, so here's hoping!
i wished i was seeing Pirates instead
posted on 27 Jul 2009I had a bad feeling about this movie from the trailers. However, i discovered beyond the marketing campaign that the premise involves literary characters, so i assumed they were trying to make this movie look worse than what it was complete with the vin diesel XXX bad boy image.I was right all along.I know the innards of at least three of those characters well. Would the movie have been loads more interesting if Dorian Gray actually behaved like Dorian Gray? Not one witticism from that guy's mouth in two hours. Or what about if Mr Hyde, looking like the bald white guy version of the Hulk, did more than spew bad Schwarzenegger cliches for the last 30 minutes of the film? Tom Sawyer really serves the purpose of the American character in the film who can ensure wider distribution, and that's about it. They take a long, boring trip somewhere, doing a "so what are your special super powers?" exposition before they arrive somewhere and have the requisite and non-sensical explosion and bodycount scene. I can usually "get" the plot, but a lot of this had me scratching my head and figuring out only half of what they were doing after mission was accomplished.Not that i haven't seen worse, but be prepared to be bored in some slow parts.
Another Comic Book Adaption?
posted on 21 Jul 2009As if the market weren't flooded enough with all of the recent comic book adaption movies by Marvel, some good - though mostly huge flops and failures- comes LGX. League of Extraordinary Gentleman proved to be one of the more well made films as Connery can hardly be a 'bad' actor, though he out classed everyone else in the film and the only time that his character, Quartermaine, really amused me was in the beginning when he was being a prick to all of these young hot shot 'extraordinary' people. Connery really seemed to be slamming on the more untalented of the actors, Nemo (Arrggghhh, my head hurts - no more accent, please!), Dorian Gray - who bored me to tears, which surprised me as I usually like Stuart Townsend but he came off like a cheap Johny Depp rip off because of the weird make-up that they had him in, and Willamina (Mina) Harker- the completely unjustified vampire that must be inserted into any good B-Action film, you know? The one that isn't evil at all, she's battling the evil inside her because she's a chemist, that must explain why she's not eating everyone on the ship! Hyde was perhaps the only character that retained any of the brilliance that Allen Moore instilled in these characters. The inwards battle between Jeckyll and Hyde was actually pretty neat to watch, as some of the more interesting mental bouts are quite well done. The special effects that they used for Jeckyll weren't that great but they beat the hell out of the Hulk special effects, I especially like how the skin stretched and bubbled in these transformations giving it a more realistic look. However aside from Quartermaine and Jeckyll there are very few amusing parts in the movie, if you're actually following it. So my recommendation would be to just sit back relax and take in the special effects, teamed with that ever so lovable accent of Connery's!
From Venice With Love
posted on 21 Jul 2009Please sing along to the original tune..."From Venice with love, I sailed with friends,At roughly Mach 2, we avoided the bends,The Nautilus sped with power unknown,Dear Sean, From Venice with Love....."Hey guys, you all WANTED to see Connery in one last Bond. This was IT, or did no-one notice? Pretty much a remake of ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, even a cameo from "M." Loved Aussie Wilson as a Moneypennyesque "can do" assistant-slayer who definitely kisses on a first-date! So what if her accent alternates between Bondi Beach, Susannah York and Julie Christie on a bad day? She's having FUN...like everyone else should be, watching.Sure it comes close to taking out LOOPIEST FILM Oscar, but that's OK, there's just soo much to laugh at. The digitised London in 1899 where they ran out of CGI budget and had to complete the St Paul's backdrop with what looks like a hand-held painting. The "Thunderbirds" inspired car that at times, whilst driven by Shane "A walk To Forget" West, hits what appears to be close to 400 mph on a narrow street. A re-vamped "Nautilus" turbo, considerably larger than the TITANIC, that can navigate canals that would barely offer clearance to an overloaded gondola! Captain Nemo's ZZ Top facial hair. An "invisible man" so invisible, they forgot his character...and this is barely scraping the surface as it were.No argument...its a travesty of Moore's original comic book, but I suspect 85% or more of viewers have never read that anyway so it's at best..irrelevant! I loved this stupid film. Every on-set squabble, Directoral gaffe, artistic mismatch, story-line continuity break, editorial hack - its all up there to see. But through it all Connery strides, rarely shaken...NEVER stirred. A charismatic colossus that succeeds despite the film under him. Alan Quartermain himself could not have handled it better. The opening bar-room brawl was vintage Bond. Age has done nothing to weary the Connery mystique, neither wrinkle or skin-fold has scored a point on this man...still so much more complete a "hero" than any screen pretender since. He alone makes this film worth seeing!
extraordinary expectations
posted on 19 Jul 2009Imagine what u would feel like if u went to a high praised restaurant and all they serve u is either cold or lukewarm. That´s what I felt like when i finished watching this movie. The expectations were high, how couldn´t they be ? On the one hand high paced action sequences, excellent special effects and Sean Connery and on the other a lukewarm story and a precipitate end. As if someone rushed in and screamed: "OK guys, our budget is gone, now let´s finish this movie and send the audience back home !"Too bad the audience is not as easy to satisfy as 5 years ago, then this movie would have been really successful :)
excellent!
posted on 17 Jul 2009This is an excellent movie. 10/10. It really captures the spirit of the comicbook. The low rating here on IMDB eludes me. It is so great to see these heroes come to life in this supreme fiction. Dorian Gray is even better than anything from the comic movie. He is very Oscar Wilde-like while at the same time he is a monster. It is really great. Of course there are people missing, say, Randolph Carter - from the Lovecraftian universe - however, this really couldn´t be much better.
Wonderful, but...
posted on 17 Jul 2009This is okay. This film has a lot cool scenes, and the way the characters are portrayed is amazing, yet a bit exaggerated. Like how they give Capt. Nemo a little background, when in the book he isn't like that. And what about the cowboy? That is also strange. But the film itself never stops entertaining me. Sean Connery may be old, but he's the greatest, he'll forever be remembered as James Bond to me. What also made it worthwhile is that they are portrayed as superheroes. Like an early Justice League, most of them are based great literary works from the early age of science fiction. Allan Quartermain, 20000 Leagues, Dracula, Huckleberry Finn, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. But they are not really portrayed the same way from the books however. But despite that, this looks promising and worthwhile, worth renting on a rainy day.
mixed up
posted on 15 Jul 2009Sean Connery was fun, some very funny lines in the movie. He still can carry any scene. My favorite was when an soldier asks Dorian Gray "What are you?" while bullet holes just disappear from his chest. He answers "I'm complicated." On the plus side my daughters are now reading Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle. On the minus side the plot made absolutely no sense.
Why would "M" want to bring them together? We saw Pirates the same weekend and it is a far better movie.
Well done, Stuart Townsend!
posted on 15 Jul 2009An entertaining and well made movie. I enjoyed the chemistry between Mina Harker and Dorian Grey the most. The actors who played these parts were excellent! The movie sparked such an interest in my son that he read the classics that the leagues characters come from. That is why I give this movie a 10. Any movie that makes you want to read the book is a winner! Mina Harker is played by Peta Wilson and Dorian Grey is played by Stuart Townsend. I also recommend that you see Stuart Townsend in "The Queen of the Damned" and "Trapped" and "About Adam" and "Head in the Clouds". I would like to see him in many, many more movies.
flawed
posted on 11 Jul 2009This film simply won't work if you don't know the people. Not the fairly good cast, but the hodgepodge of characters stolen from some of the better works of fiction of the last century.The bad guy coming, without reference, from Sherlock Holmes is a case in point. James Moriarty is chilling and calculating in those books, as was Richard Roxburgh in Moulon Rouge yet in this he is simply 2D.Still, in their settings, wide and various these really are good characters so simply work out where they're from and read the books but don't waste your money on the video
It could have been great...
posted on 01 Jul 2009I am so disappointed. The premise, the cast, and everything else should have added up to an incredible movie. Unfortunately, even though they had all the elements, someone just didn't know how to tie everything together. Just because a movie has everything that might make a great movie doesn't actually make it a great movie, and this one proves it.
Loved it!
posted on 24 Aug 2009ROCKED! It was a bit over the top, the CG wasn't perfect, but overall, it rocked. Take every possible classic fantastic literary reference (from Verne to Melville to Poe to any other you can think of) put em in a blender, add CG and lots of explosions, Mr. Connery doing his thing, generous humor, and you've got the League. They take quite a bit of character liberty, but who cares! If you're in for some entertaining action and some fun fantasy in a late 19th century timeframe, here you go. I'm not a big fan of westerns or noir, so this opens a new window in the period. However, as my friend Alan noted during the film, it's an atrocious history lesson if you're not aware of reality, and the fictional backdrop for all the characters... but it's great fun at the same time.A little bit of background: It was written by Alan Moore, a pretty well acclaimed, mainly adult targeted, comic book writer. It's definitely a comic inspired movie. The pace is quick, the action is big, the characters are bold. The lulls are VERY short (think two or three comic pages), but just enough to let you take a break from the awesome action. The characters are all classic literary icons. Dr. Jekyll, and Tom Sawyer are some of the more recognizable characters, Quartermain and Dorian Gray perhaps less so nowadays, but still huge. Hopefully will inspire people to get out and read! =)I can't say much else about the movie without giving it away... the plot is pretty short, pretty obvious, and sewn up nicely in time, with plenty of room for a sequel with or without Connery (at his choice). I hope for one with Connery, but the man is getting too old for this stuff, to steal a line from Mr. Glover. To sum up, a very fun, very funny, grin on the face fantasy action movie. See it!