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Summary: Yay God
Review: This was a mildly entertaining film. The characters were portrayed quite well. It was enough action to keep me motivated to allow my eyes not to wonder from the screen. Sean Connery of acceptional.
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Summary: shame on sean connery
Review: A class B movie at best. the only reason i bought this dvd was sean was starring and the concept seemed exciting. what a dissapointment!! save your money!!!
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Summary: Here come the bad comic to film parts......
Review: It seemed almost unaviodable that the comic to film craze in Hollywood would start to collapse in on itself. This movie was the first (and regretfully will not be the last). It suffers from mis direction by Norrington (who should take a course on how to be a good director). A script that staryed so far away from the comic it was based on, and a mis-cast Sean Connery in the lead role, leading a cast of other actors who seem to have no idea how to play roles in a film like this.
Worst of all is the CGI effects and the non-stop pointless action. It gives you a headage just watching all these things try to come together in one film which suffers from too many action sequences, not enough script, and pointless antics at humor until you get to the end which makes the whole movie look like a bad day at the circus.
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Summary: Sean Connery is great, but the others....
Review: You have to hand it to Sean Connery. In today's young and younger Hollywood, you just don't find too many grumpy old movie stars with the clout to have their name solo above the title of a $100 million summer action-fantasy like "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen."Jackie Chan is seven months shy of 50, and still lithe as a cat scaling a wall. Nevertheless, it is clear in The Medallion that he is not the miraculous whirlwind he once was. His fight scenes and chases, while still choreographed with balletic ingenuity, tend to highlight earth-bound skills - like that wall-climbing trick he still executes so effortlessly. More tellingly, he submits at long last to the dominion of special effects. Particularly in the second half of the movie, he sails through the air in fanciful style, propelled by wires and computer-generated illusions. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, and heaven knows no other action star at work today has shown Chan's uncanny stamina. The guy deserves a break. Still, the high-flying digital tricks signal the end of the pure-Jackie era of no stunt doubles, no wires and no computer effects. Old-schoolers may mourn, but action stars like to show they are more than fists and feet, so why not the Chan Man himself? As if to underscore the transition to a new style, The Medallion also gives Chan a reasonable facsimile of a romance, not to mention his first serious on-screen kiss. Claire Forlani (Meet Joe Black) does an able job as Nicole James, an Interpol officer who reconnects with Hong Kong inspector Eddie Yang (Chan) when he goes to Ireland looking for a kidnapped child. It seems the little boy was born to fulfill an ancient Buddhist prophecy about supernatural powers - including life and death - to be had with a certain magical medallion. Naturally, a megalomaniacal bad guy - with the wickedly lurid name of Snakehead (Julian Sands) - has gotten wind of the prophecy and means to have the medallion for himself. In the opening scenes, Eddie rescues the boy from a burning room shortly after sharing his octopus dinner with a street-side dog. (Nobody ever accused the Hong Kong action-movie community of excessive subtlety.) For the rest of the movie, he performs variations of the same feat, as the kid changes hands several times. At one point, Eddie even appears to be stone-cold dead, but having bonded with the life-and-death kid, he gets to come back. His rebirth bonus is virtual immortality. He can feel pain but doesn't bleed when injured - as demonstrated in a funny scene when he is stabbed repeatedly by an incredulous crony. That crony is another Interpol agent called Watson, played by the British slapstick comic Lee Evans (Mouse Hunt), who is sometimes charmingly clumsy and sometimes cloying and overbroad. Aside from such tone-deaf lapses, director Gordon Chan, who shares writing credit with four others, observes the conventions of the Jackie Chan style while adding a layer of high-tech polish to the proceedings. The movie's action scenes are choreographed by Chan's childhood friend Sammo Hung, the veteran Hong Kong director and actor best known in the United States from his stint on the TV series Martial Law. Hung's playful take on martial-arts style perfectly matches Chan's own comic bent; together they pack more wit into a simple chase than most action movies do into their most elaborate showdowns. It is that wit that is the sorriest loss in the turn to special effects. Anybody can fly with a green screen and wires, but it takes a creative mind to figure out a way for one little guy to whomp a roomful of opponents all by himself.
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Summary: A literary based adventure in an illiterate age
Review: Making a film with 19th century literary characters for a largely illiterate audience was not a recipe for success, but I'm glad they made this film. If nothing else it is adventurous escapism with wonderful characters and most satisfying on that level. Many of the negative reviews found here attack elements from Verne, Haggard, Wilde and other fine authors and seem clueless of the film's literary roots. One reviewer accuses Quatermain of being an Indiana Jones rip-off!
X Box is more valued than a good book these days and Justin Timberlake passes as music. No wonder this film is not widely appreciated.
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Summary: A rental.
Review: Im not gonna bomb this review because i didnt expect much from this movie, the genre in this movie was bits and peaces of other hits coff xmen coff coff but surprisingly it was ok.
Not too shabby.
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Summary: I liked it
Review: This is one of the coolest looking flicks ive seen,its just a shame it has no plot to make it any better. Sean connery and jason flemyng are the main reasons to give this thing a try.Its not perfect,but it is pretty and will blow your sound system apart.
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Summary: Out Of Your League
Review: Based very liberaly on the comic book graphic novel, of the same name, by Allan Moore. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a film proposal, probably sounded like a great idea, too bad it doesn't amount to much in the end. The story takes a group of characters drawn from famous works of literature, including Captain Nemo, (Naseeruddin Shah) Allan Quatermain, (Sean Connery) The Invisible Man, (Tony Curran) Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), Dr. Jekyll (Jason Flemyng), Dracula's wife Mina Harker (Peta Wilson) banding together to combat the criminal mastermind known as the fantom, near the turn of the 19th century. For some reason, the filmmakers also chose to add Tom Sawyer (Shane West), to the mix. The original comic book told a story of high adventure and fun. The movie, directed by Stephen Norrington, on the other hand seems pasted together, taking the league from one effects ladden battle to another. This would be fine if you cared about any of it. Having Connery in charge should have yielded some fun, instead the team appears flat. The only fun character portrayals come in the form of Gray and The Invisible Man, but it's just not enough. The DVD has two audio commentary tracks. The first features producers Don Murphy and Trevor Albert as well as actors Shane West, Jason Flemyng, and Tony Curran. With all of these participants, you would expect a cool track, nope, it's ho-hum. The second commentary by costume designer Jacqueline West, make-up effects supervisor Steve Johnson, visual effects supervisor John E. Sullivan, and miniatures creators Matthew Gratzner is also a crowded field, that offers only a few tidbits and can get rather dry. 12 deleted and extended scenes don't really offer anything that would have helped the film and were wisely cut out. The last main extra is "Assembling the League": a six-part behind-the-scenes documentary, that's by the numbers. I probably would have enjoyed the bonus material more, if I had liked the main feature. Fans of the graphic novel will be disappointed. As someone who enjoyed the original tale, I wish things had come together better, instead the film is kind of a mess.
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Summary: An Extraordinary Adventure.
Review: _The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen_ is a decent action/adventure movie which features a confrontation at the end of the Nineteenth Century between the forces of good represented by various characters from Nineteenth Century classics and the forces of evil represented by an evil professor turned British agent. The movie attempts to show how secret forces operated behind the creation of the Twentieth Century and the world wars during that century. At the end of the movie, the character representing the British empire played by Sean Connery, Alan Quartermain, remarks that as the Nineteenth Century belonged to him so the Twentieth will belong to the young American boy, "Sawyer". Thus, we see how the British empire has faded and the rise of the American superpower brought about through the First and Second World Wars. The movie unfortunately isn't able to fully show the detail of this interpretation. I enjoyed this movie and it raised for me many questions about the role of secret forces influencing the birth of the Twentieth Century. When the League is initiated we see a masonic symbol on the door to the hall where the League has its first meeting. Perhaps this indicates that the masonic societies have played a role in initiating wars and revolutions. Now, that the ultra-violent Twentieth Century has come to pass and man faces a new millenium one can only begin to ask what the future will bring.
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Summary: LXG is no Spiderman, yet it is fun and witty....
Review: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the kind of film that, in order to enjoy it, you need to leave your sense of disbelief at home (or, if you are at home, leave it in the closet). It also helps if you have read either the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill or any of the classic adventure novels from which the League's characters are borrowed (King Solomon's Mines, Dracula, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Portrait of Dorian Grey, just to name a few). If you embrace the idea that this is a popcorn-adventure movie and not one of those serious Oscar-contending films, then you'll have a good time. As comic-book-based movies go, LXG isn't on the same legendary adaptation level as Superman: The Movie or Spiderman. Nevertheless, the conceit of uniting some of the best adventure/fantasy characters from late 19th Century literature and pitting them against a clever wannabe world dominator in order to stop a world war in 1899 is not exactly a bad one. And of course it helps to have Sean Connery (Dr. No, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade) as the head of an ensemble that includes TV's La Femme Nikita's Peta Wilson, Shane West, Stuart Townsend and Jason Fleming. As legendary hunter Allan Quatermain Connery (who's also executive producer of this project) exudes world-weary cynicism and a sense of honorable duty as he leads a group of literary superheroes on a quest to stop the mysterious Fantom, a war-hungry arms merchant/inventor who seeks to pit the European superpowers against each other. Of course, it's up to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to stop this madman and preserve world peace (at least until 1914!). Screenwriter James Dale Robinson and director Stephen Norrington keep things moving at a brisk pace, and the whole movie sparkles with a sense of fun and humor that was clearly lacking in both Daredevil and The Hulk, both of which are examples of how not to make a comic book movie. LXG succeeds where many of this genre don't, partly because it doesn't take itself too seriously, but mostly because it is fast-paced and dares to take chances.
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