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Summary: What the heck?!?!?!
Review: This movie is so freaken boring! All they do is talk and talk and talk that i almost fell asleep. The dialoge needs A LOT of editing and the action is very awful. This movie gets extremely confusing after the first half hour. and doesn't explain things. This movie also expects you to know everything about the characters already and for people who don't it is hard to keep with the plot. The plot it self is predictable. " must save world before madman controls it."Overall: it is a bad movie and barely deserves 1 star.
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Summary: Action Fan
Review: I'm a guy who loves testosterone laden action flics. So much so that occasionally I'll forgive the lack of plot, character developement or even a film that makes little sense in lieu of some great eye candy or earsplitting booms and bangs. Unfortunately this film contained none of the above. I love Sean Connery. The rest of the cast was solid. The script, execution and acting was, plainly- not. Save yourself the trouble and disappointment. I almost fell asleep. Really.
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Summary: Extraordinary
Review: Extraordinary is the amount of background literature you need to remember to understand what is intended here. I lost count at a dozen tomes. But still a enjoyable if you have read at least some of the books the characters come from.
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Summary: Dorian!?!?
Review: Dorian, Dorian, what have they done to Dorian?! The problem with this movie is that to get many of the jokes you have to have a knowledge of classic literature, but if you have a knowledge of classic literature it makes you want to cry at the travesty. I suppose for a movie standing alone its pretty good, but its bad for a movie based on comic, and its worse for a movie based on a comic based on novels.
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Summary: Waste of money and time!
Review: I like Sean Connery, but this movie sucks BIG time!Save your money and if you are truly desperate buy it used! When it is a bad movie there are a lot people selling it cheap and that is always a good indicator, just see how many are available!
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Summary: So much potential squandered...
Review: Where to begin? This movie has so much going for it: decent actors, interesting and unusual characters, good special effects and yet it still falls flat on it's face. The first half of the movie is spent introducing the characters and explaining their "origin". Since there are so many characters, the method used to do this is each of them basically asking each other "So, what's your story?" again and again (and again). They could have done it all at once and been done with it, but they didn't and this part of the movie goes on, and on... I suppose it's laudable that they tried something different, but it didn't work. They didn't insert enough of the plot in between each "origin" dialogue, so it comes off as a tedious process without any suspense or interest. Other aspects of the film that didn't work were: Sean Connery's character as father figure to the young Tom Sawyer, no chemistry there, they just couldn't pull it off. The Nautilus being the length of three aircraft carriers. I understand the concept of suspension of disbelief, but this was ridiculous. Why is Mina Harker, supposedly a vampire, able to walk about in full daylight? This is never explained. Last, but definitely not least, was the irritating ending so obviously contrived for a sequel that will likely never happen. A pretty movie, but even for a comic-action flick, it's flat.
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Summary: dont waste your money!
Review: LoEG (the movie) has about as much in common with LoEG the serialized graphic novel as "Shakespeare in Love" (again, the movie) had to the real life of Shakespeare the playwright. It is merely an interpretation rathern than an addaptation, and it is a poor one at that.
If you want to know what the adventures of these victorian supermen (and superwoman) *please* get the graphic novel (now compiled in volumes 1 and 2).
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Summary: There isn't much thinking involved, but It's still fun!
Review: League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or LXG is sort of a rip off of the X men, but it also had more background than a comic book (LXG was based on a graphic Novel). LXG also has some scenes that remind me of scenes in the Lord of the Rings movies. This movie is set at the turn of the century, in the 1890s. A threat to the world had developed from a character named the Phantom who would build machines of destruction and get countrys to turn against each other hoping to cause a World War. As a result, a man known only as M (and something else that I won't give away) calls together a group of Extraordinary Gentlemen (and Gentlewomen). The leader was Sean Connery, who was a hunter. Then there was an Immortal named Dorian Grey. There was a Beast named Mr. Hyde who was sometimes Dr. Jeckle. A woman that was bit by Dracula when her husband was hunting him was the vampire. There was also an Invisible man, and an American Spy that you didn't find out that he was Tom Sawyer after Mark Twain was done with him until the credits. And finally, the seventh Extraordinary gentleman was a scientest named Captan Nemo who had a submarine named the Nautalus. This group goes out to conqure evil and all that stuff, and not giving too much away, they are successful, and from the ending, I'll be expecting a sequel (which they tried to hard to achieve).
Of course, this movie wasn't academy award worthy, but it's still worth seeing (mostly because it was so corny). The story could have been developed much better, but the movie also has non-stop action, great special effects, and a cool way to extend the storys of classic literature. I'd see it again...
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Summary: Pleasantly Surprised! Great Action! Family Loved it!
Review: WOW! With the reviews being so bad about this movie, I was afraid to sink money down to buy it. Fortunately, it was a preorder, so it came anyway. The action was great! I have a house full of people of different ages, and they all sat and watched the movie. The premise of the movie was unique. Gather up a whole bunch of famous characters from the time period, and have them kick butt. Special effects were dazzling. Some parts were a little scary for the youngest set, but there was not an overabundance of blood and gore. There was no sex in the movie that I could see. Nobody will win an oscar for the acting, but who cares, the special effects and action alone will keep you busy. I was expecting something horrible like the "Hulk", but this one was way way better. Sometimes a simple storyline makes a great backdrop for a movie that relies on special effects and action. I am not a movie critic (my favorite movies are Austin Powers and Little Nickie), just someone who tries to find movies that the whole family will enjoy. This one according to the mass of my family and friends got two thumbs up!
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Summary: They used the title but forgot to use the story!
Review: This is just a butchery of H.G.Wells' classic story. There seem to be two extra characyers in it, too. I wonder why! They jusy HAD to make surethere was at least ONE American in the movie, because, shallow as it may seem, a movie without an American will not sell in the US! It's as simple and as shallow as that.
I quickly grew tired of the turgid literary references that would almost certainly be wasted anyway on the sort of audience this film is designed to enthrall -"Call me Ishmael", for instance.
It is a watchable movie, all the same, but if you have any love for literature I suggest you stay away from this, as you will almost certainly be enraged by this film.
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