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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The
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Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 36 critic reviews
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Based on 80 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller
Written by:
Alan Moore (comic books)
Kevin O'Neill (comic books)
James Robinson
Directed by: Stephen Norrington
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 11, 2003
DVD: December 16, 2003
Running Time: 108 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Germany
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for intense sequences of fantasy violence, language and innuendo
Starring Sean Connery, Naseeruddin Shah, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Shane West, Jason Flemyng, and Richard Roxburgh
Incredible technology wielded by a mind of infinite evil is threatening the safety of the entire world. To fight the unthinkable, the British government will have to mobilize the extraordinary. This team -- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen -- is the only thing standing between the future and total destruction. (20th Century Fox)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Wall Street Journal Collin Levey
Succeeds the same way the original comic books did: by making the conflicts and dilemmas basic enough for a five-year-old, while giving the heroes and villains glamorous outfits and layers of complexity, to thicken the broth.
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Rick Groen
The concept is high but everything else is merely fair to middling, one more or less watchable B-movie in megabucks clothing.
Read Full Review >ReelViews James Berardinelli
In a summer of high-octane action and testosterone-boosted thrills, this movie is out of its league.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Kevin Carr
The filmmakers tried to give everyone a main storyline and ended up diluting everything. With so many characters, the film lost some focus.
Read Full Review >Variety Todd McCarthy
Robinson's script is alive to the material's literary roots, although there is a sense that the brakes have been applied so as not to push into territory perceived as too esoteric for American teenagers.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez
Here, finally, is a superhero movie your AP English teacher can enjoy.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It depicts the world of a century ago in a way that comments on the anxieties facing the world today, and it does so, at least for a while, with cleverness and a sense of fun.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
One more bloated effects-o-rama lumbering through a formula plot (super-villain out to rule the world) without much zest, imagination or awareness of its own absurdity.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
The movie is based on a 1999 series of comic books by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, but the original tone of deadpan historical audacity has been replaced by a kind of wax-museum literalness.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan
The film wears out its welcome by the halfway mark, becoming a silly spectacle.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
League begins as a smart variation on the summer blockbuster, then loses its nerve in a second half sure to satisfy neither cheap-thrill-seekers nor fans of neglected literary oddities.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Has the sweat stains of wasted energy; it's dreary, yet frantic.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Simply put, its too much of a good thing, this unreined tumult of chaos.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Robert Wilonsky
Moore invested his characters with flaws, with a tangible humanity; God knows they never felt the need to explain themselves, as the film does, rendering it something akin to one long footnote.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Charles Taylor
The irony of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is that it has the most literate pedigree of any action movie you're likely to see this year or next -- and it's been made by people who seem to have no sense of how to tell a story.
Read Full Review >Premiere Peter Debruge
Despite its preposterous leaps of logic, it somehow still emerges a reasonably entertaining summer blockbuster.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
How does an embarrassment of riches turn into mere embarrassment?
Read Full Review >USA Today Mike Clark
The murkiest-looking movie since Ben Affleck's Daredevil and about as lacking in charm.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
What 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!
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
Having these characters interact is both the joke and raison d'etre of "League." Its story is beyond banal.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Has the distinction of being much dumber and pulpier than the comic book on which it's based -- the ink practically comes off on your fingers as you watch it.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Nothing anchors the lighter-than-air story as it drifts away under the direction of Stephen Norrington ("Blade") into an FX stratosphere where wit, character and vigorous storytelling cease to matter.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
It just doesn't work...This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Opium- addicted Allan Quatermain becomes none other than Sean Connery. At least he gives a real movie-star performance, which is more than the other gentlemen manage. Extraordinary? Balderdash!
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Just when it seems about to become a real corker of an adventure movie, plunges into incomprehensible action, idiotic dialogue, inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy. What a mess.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly John Patterson
Extraordinary is the very last adjective that comes to mind.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ed Park
Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
A stiff. I don't know the comic book series, but it could hardly be as lifeless as this leaden adaptation, in which the weapons have more personality than the characters and the nonstop action often feels like no action at all.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Six guys and a gal who flatline on arrival. Easily the lamest action-adventure fantasy since Wild Wild West.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It's not brazenly bad or heroically bad or stridently bad. It's bad in all the old, dull ways of being bad: poor performances, absurd story, dreary special effects, witless dialogue and the excessive length of someone taking himself far too seriously.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 4.5 (out of 10) based on 80 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Paul E. gave it a0:
This is definitely the only Sean Connery movie that I ever wanted to walk out on. I couldn't because I was with someone on a first date. She liked it. I never saw her again, in large part because she like it. I hated this movie. It was torture.
John gave it a10:
One of the most awesome movies you could ever see. Everytime it's on, I like to watch it. Why the hell would these critics be so harsh?
Polly Anna gave it a0:
You know that feeling where you want to chew your own fist off with embarrassment? Yeah... The dialogue *alone* is that bad but them then there's the holes in the plot... holes big enough to drive a bus through. If your I.Q. is higher than the metascore this is one to avoid.
Pat C. gave it a3:
This presentation is riveting in that one must see what audaciously warped device is forced upon the preceding one. High marks for creativity, but the fact that this cobbled assemblage presumes to work is the only extraordinary thing about it.
I. L. gave it a0:
This was simply the most boring movie I've ever watched. It tries to cover up the boring parts with shiny effects. I wasn't fooled. It really sucks....ass..
Lomax H. gave it a0:
"It's a Winchester. Modified, American Style." "'Bomb' voyage!" "The sound of treachery!" "To that end, I set my wolf among you sheep." -- "Growl." Thanks again, Hollywood.
Melissa O. gave it a9:
Peta Wilson gave a amazing performance as mina harker and her outfit was da bomb! this movie is action packed and you are glued to your seat.
