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Summary: Great movie
Review: The critics hated it but it was a great movie, sure not Underworld but still as far as historic superheros go it cannot be topped-a must see!!
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Summary: Saved by Connery
Review: I was hanging out for this movie, Sean Connery is just fantastic, and it's just as well he signed on for this movie 'cause without him it would've been alot worse!The idea is brilliant, if a little predicatible - the heros of fantasic novels with unique talents come together to thwart the bad guy aka 'The Phantom'. You never know why the bad guy is trying to take over the world or learn enough about the main characters and their motives to care about each of them. Unfortunately, there's no edge of the seat nail bitting action, it's just a ho hum movie filling up 2 hours of time. The special effects are OK, although the whole Jeckell & Hyde thing is overkill to the point of stupid. All in all - could've been a whole lot better, but because of Connery it will still end up in my DVD collection.
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Summary: I would have rated it "0 star" - if possible
Review: This film is on my list of "Worst Films of 2003" - I can't image that Gigli could be worse (ok, I can. but since I'll never see it - I won't be able to judge that).
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Summary: As good as could be expected, I guess
Review: I went to see this movie when it was in theaters. Now, to be fair, I wasn't expecting anything particularly brilliant. Even so, I had hoped that the film would have fun with its plot. There WAS a plot, believe it or not, but it was merely pulled from the sea of silly CG effects from time to time in a weak attempt to remind us it was there. About halfway through the movie, it was obvious how it would end and what sappy device would be used to bring it about. The only other real problem with the movie was that there was too much crammed into it, there were several characters that could have been explored more. Sadly, the film dwelt the longest on the least interesting. I still don't know what the hell Tom Sawyer was doing in it anyway.
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Summary: a totally mindless, purposeless junk! simply horrible
Review: what kinda lousy scripted mindless movie! don't know what's the purpose of putting this ridiculous junk into production. mucho dinero to burn? i jusk think this storyteller's appetite is way too big, way over his pea-brain to come up with such ridiculous b-t, maybe he ate too much buffet stuff and want to put everything into his garbage can. so why not put all the other famous historical legends together from beowulf, ivanhoe, achilles, ulyssis, even napolean to save their england and france? in order to lure some american viewers like us, like me, to watch this crap, he even put tom sawyer as an action hero in it. my god, tom sawyer? give me a break. no wonder even sean connery admitted that he didn't know what he's doing in this film. don't treat us as brain dead as you, sir. have nice day.
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Summary: One Question....
Review: This movie is (to quote the late Gene Siskel) "shockingly bad". How bad? Answer this one question: How can they have a CAR chase in Venice, Italy where THERE ARE NO STREETS, ONLY CANALS?!!!
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Summary: Digital Overdose!!
Review: Movies in the new millenium have benefited greatly from the technological advances of the digital age, and filmmaking forever changed with the infinite possibilties directors can use this new technology to enhance their movie and impress and dazzle the viewers. Yet there is a borderline that any director should not cross, no matter how excited he or she is by the new toys available to them, and that is plot and entertainment.When the use of digital effects takes priority at the expense of a coherent plot,then we,as an intelligent audience regardless of our age, background or tastes, have a problem.
This is exactly what happened with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.The premise was good enough to start with:
a group of literary heroes spring to life to defend the world from a evil psycho,and the collection of these heroes is very interesting indeed, Allan Quatermain (an always excellent Sean Connery), Dorian Gray(Stuart Townsend),Tom Sawyer (Shane West), a sexy Vampire out of Van Helsing's entourage, Captain Nemo (the brilliant Naseeruddin Shah), Dr Jekyll/Mr Hyde (Jason Fleming) and the invisible man.
Yet the non stop action was so digitilized that in some scenes, especially the underwater shots and the destruction of Venice I was not sure whether I was watching a normal film or an animated feature from Dreamworks!! You can really feel that director Stephen Norrington( Blade) has pushed the limits of what he can do technically, and loaded each scene with too much digital experimentation,and as the cliche goes about too much of anything, just half way through the movie these scenes stopped being impressive and became annoying.
It is time that the huge digital development in moviemaking SERVES the movie and not vice versa, for no matter how advanced we become, we, the viewers, will still need the simplest of all, a good story and plot and some good old entertainement.
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Summary: Repeat after me, Books better than movies!
Review: I was waiting for a long time to see this movie as I loved the comics and books when I was a kid. The movie was pretty neat in concept but after a while I was a bit bored with all the action esp. the whole thing in Mongolia. The movie did follow the book to a large extent except for some switches in characters and responsibilities. Worth a rent but not a buy...
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Summary: It's an okay movie.
Review: I like this movie and I thought I wouldn't. I thought it was sort of funny, but that could be just be me. Check it out! You might like it.
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Summary: Indiana Jones meets the X-Men
Review: A cross between Indiana Jones & X-Men.
Spectacular visuals, great fight scenes, plenty of action, very cool. Looking forward to more from this series.
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