The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [UMD for PSP]

brilliant and timeless hours of watching over and over for year

Love this fun steampunk-ish ride into history. I waited way too long to watch! Rest in peace, Sir Connery, add this to your long list of great films!

I am not going to even to try to encapsulate this movie, let’s just say watch it. don’t try to get deep into the meaning of this movie, just have an extra-large bag of popcorn, and a soda pop. Let you mind go numb and enjoy. It’s as simple as that.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is really an extraordinary superhero movie although these heroes arent from comic books but the books of great literature. A hunter, a scientist, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal, a spy, and a beast -- the imndomitable Alan Quatermain from of H. Rider Haggards 1885 novel King Solomons Mines; Mina Harker from Bram Strokers immortal vampire book Dracula; Captain Nemo from Jules Vernes 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; the sleek and sinister Dorian Gray from Oscar Wildes the Picture of Dorian Gray; Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde comes from Robert Louis Stevensons short novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; a grown-up Tom Sawyer, called Agent Sawyer, from Mark Twains various novels; and the thief Rodney Skinner standing in for H. G. Wells Invisible Man-- are all treated as real people who lived, worked, fought, and even died around the turn of twentieth century and that all of the adventures written about them werent fiction, but just the events that made up the days of their lives. And here they fight a villainous master-mind who is trying to start a world war just to make profits for himself. I dont know why, but at first, I did not not like this movie. But then I watched it again for a second time and found that despite a certain grimness to the sets that represent 19th century London and Paris, this is a great action/adventure film to rival any James Bond or X-Man movie. It was the kind of a movie that made wished I had read the books all of those heroes-- and the surprise villain-- came from. I think that in spite of the violence, and there is a lot of it, this might be a very good movie for parents to watch with their older kids and point out to them that the great works of literature can be just as exciting as any comic book or video game and get them started on reading just for the pleasure of reading.

I really enjoyed this movie. The writing is good, the photography and special effects are good, and the acting is excellent as well. Although I must admit, Sean Connery is one of my all time favorite actors. So Im sure that has something to do with my rating. :)

All, what I have against it, that Captain Nemo is played by India man, when in Verne story he was a Polish man, who run from Sybir.

The cast of course is great , the movie itself I found very entertaining and action packed a great movie for my collection and a great fun movie for the whole family !!

I truly dont understand all the hate for this film... I thoroughly enjoyed it... marvelous action, sfx and storyline bringing classic heroes and villains from some of the best literature and all the actors were at peak performance... maybe it was too cerebral for some or maybe the distribution just dropped the ball... regardless, to me, this is a dont miss and after at least a half dozen viewings, it holds well... right up there with several other undeservedly panned wonderful films like other real favorites... Mystery Men, the Rocketeer, Disneys Atlantis and Treasure Planet and John Carter of Mars... I think the critics blew it, Im sure Ill be watching again

Disc was new, in sealed packaging, plays as expected.

Its a shame this movie is so boring because while youre watching it, you feel like it shouldnt be. For starters, this movie is really neat to look at. The director Stephen Norrington is a great visual stylist. The action sequences--on a purely visual level--are exciting and dynamic. So what went wrong? First off, I would say the lead performance by Sean Connery is a definite liability. It is the very definition of a phoned in performance. He looks bored. For example, in his introductory action sequence, pretty much all of his friends in Africa get killed but he just goes on making quips like its no big deal. Beyond Connery, Peta Wilson is the only actor who seems to be having any fun. The other big problem is that the script is so lame-brained. Like I said, the action sequences are visually exciting, but because the stakes are never very clear going into them, they end up feeling like a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing. For example, in their first encounter with The Phantom in the library at Dorians house, they fight with the Phantoms henchmen and he escapes. But then later we learn that [SPOILER ALERT] M is the Phantom and that M is trying to steal their abilities. So why the hell was the Phantom trying to kill them in the library?! Its a neat looking action scene, but ultimately pointless. Similarly, the mid-point action sequence in the Venice canals is wonderful to look at, but the physics of it make absolutely no sense. Apparently, the buildings are falling like dominoes and if they destroy a building in the middle of the city, they can stop the chain of destruction, but based on the level of destruction onscreen, you get the sense that almost the entire city is destroyed by the end of it. Then when Sean Connery confronts the villain afterwards, he says, Venice still stands. No it doesnt! Finally, the last action sequence has no narrative structure at all. We have no idea what theyre planning to accomplish or how, they just go into the enemy base and violence erupts. Then the place blows up thanks to the Invisible Man who secret placed bombs all over the complex. Great, so why did the other league members even need to go in there with him? Lastly--and this is a big problem with movies about superhero teams--there are too many characters vying for the writers attention for any one character to be adequately developed. Not that this movie doesnt give a valiant effort--there are several scenes dedicated to generating chemistry between the various characters in the league, but they feel stale because the characters pretty much only communicate in quips and cliches. Furthermore, the interplay between the league members never pays off. It doesnt nothing to raise the stakes as the movie goes on. Whatever relationships were established get tossed out the window by the end, which, as I mentioned, is just a lot of pointless, confusing action. Bottom line, I loved this movies visuals enough to overlook the boring, cliche script and cheesy dialogue. Watch it for the expertly filmed action sequences and nifty atmosphere. Just prepare to be emotionally detached from whatevers going on.