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Summary: League of extraordinary gentlemen
Review: I thought,"Sean Connery - can't be too bad". Awful is an understatement. Not just a waste of money - but worse it is a waste of time.
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Summary: Even Connery couldn't save this bomb
Review: WOW! Let me start by saying this movie sucked! It was so incredibley stupid and amazingly annoying. I had to shut it off halfway through because I was so frustrated with the lack of intelligence that was put into making this movie. It felt like they were ripping off Indiana Jones, X-Men and The Mummy all in the same movie. Let me say that both Indiana Jones and X-Men are both great series but the Mummy sucked. Unfortunatley this movie makes me want to see both Mummy movies twice over again to avoid seeing the League of f**king stupid gentlemen once.
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Summary: 'The League of Extraordinary Boredom'!!!!
Review: that is what the title of the movie should have been. I saw this in the movies and did not enjoy a single second of it....my biggest complaint about this...how in the HECK can the nautilus navigate through venice italy?! I'm sorry.....a whole lot of thought went into this movie, but all thoughts failed. The idea was there...it just faltered, this does not do the comic justice. Also...wasnt mina harker the leader and not allen quartermain??? mess mess MESSS!! AVOID AT ALL COSTS!!! it's ashamed i had to even give it 1 star because i wouldnt even give it that.
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Summary: It's hard to understand, but great to watch.
Review: Suffice it to say that a team of Victorian-era literary heroes (a hunter, a vampire, an invisible man, Dr. Jeckyl/Mr. Hyde, an indestructable man, Captain Nemo and - Tom Sawyer) get together to fight a bad guy called "Fantom". He supposedly wants to start a war in Europe to make money selling high-tech (by 1899 standards) weapons like tanks, body armor and machine guns. Alas, it's all mainly a ruse just to steal the heroes superpowers (something you may not get unless you listen to the commentary track).If you can forget the hard-to-understand story and just dwell on the eye-popping visuals, it's a more enjoyable experience. The characters in the movie are interesting group of what-ifs: 1) What if Alan Quartermain, the original Indiana Jones, was part of a team instead of being on his own... 2) What if a (woman) vampire decided to fight on the side of good... 3) What if a thief stole the invisible man's formula and couldn't benefit from it conventionally... 4) What if a man who can't die must be killed... 5) What if Captain Nemo was swashbuckling Indian man... 6) What if Dr. Jeckyl's alterego, the brutish Mr. Hyde, could direct his energy towards fighting bad guys (instead of harrassing women)... 7) What if the writer Tom Sawyer went to the Old West, learned how to be a gunfighter, and then ended up in Europe for some reason... The best parts were: 1) Mr. Hyde (think "Hulk" lite) and a totally outrageous Mr. Hyde #2 (a different guy - think "Hulk" on steroids) get into a huge building-crunching fight. 2) Much of Venice Italy gets destroyed until the League crew step in to dramatically stop a supposed domino-effect (which wasn't really occuring - the buildings were simply collapsing). 3) Capt. Nemo has an ornately designed,900-foot "Nautilus" submarine (that's nuclear powered) AND a 6-wheeled automobile, that both come in handy. 4) The final battle scenes between the good and the bad guys incorporated just about every fighting technique and special effect that exists. The worst part was simply trying to follow what was going on and figuring out why they were doing certain things. It's one of those movies you have to watch many times to understand it, but you won't have that much patience if the movie doesn't grab you the first time. You could call this movie a thinking man's version of "X-Men" if you take the "thinking" reference with a grain of salt. It's more sophisticated, but less satisfying.
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Summary: A RIPPING YARN!
Review: As a boy I loved the tales of H. Rider Haggard, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.G. Wells, Mark Twain and Jules Verne. Oscar Wilde's Dorain Gray fascinated me as did Bram Stoker's Dracula. I was an avid reader of comic books, pulps, a huge fan of the great Ray Harryhausen, I thrilled to classic cliffhanger serials, and watched every Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Dracula movie that I could and loved them. LXG is cut from the same cloth as those fantastic adventurous books, comics, and movies and I enjoyed every minute of this film. It's not flawless, but the same can be said of some of Doyle's stories, or Verne's, or Twain's, or some of the work of Harryhausen. These are all great fun, but often far from perfection and I never cared for perfection when I could have ripping yarns and stirring escapist adventures with characters like Captain Nemo or Alan Quartermain. If you love these characters and enjoy nothing better on a rainy Saturday afternoon than spending it with a good escapist movie (Captain Nemo And The Underwater City rocks!), a bowl of quality popcorn, and friends and family who appreciate this brand of entertainment, then perhaps you too will find LXG to be extraordinary fun. I love it.
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Summary: thin plot, poor special effects
Review: This movie has an interesting premise and to be fair it did not bore me to death, but the plot seemed poorly thought out and slapped together in order to meet a deadline. The villian is very cartoonish and it motivated by the usual desire to rule the world. The choice of league members is odd as well. Some have extrordinary powers (immortality, invisiblity, great strength), while others are ordinary (Alan Quartermaine played by Sean Connery and the U.S. agent Sawyer). Speaking of Connery, he is way too old to be playing an action hero and his fight scenes were lame and unbelievable. Despite all these flaws, the worst aspect of the movie was the poorly done computer generated imagery. The Nautilus looked like a cartoon and its movement through the water was unrealistic. The worst example was Mr. Hyde, who looked bloated and plastic-like. Much like the Hulk, Mr. Hyde was made too big, and the computer was unable to generate enough texture on his skin to make him look believable. They should have limited his appearances to brief glimpses in low light to mask these deficiencies. Overall this was a disappointing movie.
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Summary: All the different reviews mean JUDGE FOR YOURSELF!
Review: I don't think I've seen a movie where it's so hard to find an agreeable review... Well at least the people whom hate it can't agree on what makes it bad.... And I think that says a lot. The reviews that say the Quartermain character is a ripoff of Indiana Jones was particularly amusing since Lucas and Spielberg themselves state those flicks were based off the OG Quartermain character... Well that's what too much Eminem music and a lack of reading will do to you I guess. I keep hearing "not enough characterization", or "too much characterization, I read all the books, I feel insulted!" Well, to put these main charcters from all the books into a movie, and to give a thorough rundown of each... Would make one of the LOTR extended cuts seem like a commercial break. And those who read all the books didn't take note that there are some differences from the OG sources... Namely the Invisible Man who in the movie states he's not the original one. So thoe ones at least should go back to the library! No one can agree on the CGI either... I'm still waiting to hear or read a universal agreement about the quality of CGI in a movie. Any movie that uses it there's always people that love it and hate it. IMO it looks about par for the course. I will agree on the too hectic editing in fight scenes. particularly the library one is bad. By the last third of the movie though they seem to have found a good pace. I haven't read the comics to fairly compare, but having read all the classics save for The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Which I will now be making a prority to read), I really liked to see these characters brought together like a superhero group in the vein of Justice League Of America or The Defenders... Calling it an Xmen ripoff is kinda wrong, considering none of these heroes are mutants. In fact at least a couple of them are probably too human for some to appreciate in this day and age. At best though LXG is a little bit above a mediocre action film. But it's far superior IMNSHO when compared to other recent DVD releases such as Tomb Radier 2 with it's snarling sharks, spastic flow, and drollest action movie ending in cinema history. Give it a rent and decide for yourself on this one.
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Summary: This "League" is good for a laugh and a thrill...
Review: Sean Connery ("Entrapment") leads an all-star cast in "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," a Stephen Norrington (Blade)-directed sci-fi adventure based on the ever-popular graphic novel be reclusive Alan Moore. While virutally ignored in theatres (It opened against the much more marketable "Pirates of the Caribbean"), it's a film you should definitely consider buying for an action fan (Whether that be a friend, relative, or yourself), since it's jam-packed with kinetic action, solid SFX, and, of course, a bucket-load of cheesy one-liners. If you're looking for a fun little action movie, stop looking: this IS IT!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Despite the bad reviews this movie got it still has some perks. It combines some great american thrillers. I couldn't think of a better way of doing it. It had very interesting characters with great acting. Also the fight scenes were astounding. When they are in this big circular room and their is a gun shoot out, the special effects and stunts are astounding. I loved this movie and I will camp outside to buy it at my nearest retailer
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Summary: great idea didn't make it to the big screen
Review: I like my movies to flow and make sense. That was the reason I was so disapointed in LXG. The movie starts off with a good enough premise, save the world. However half way through the movie the film changes gears, rather abruptly, and leaves the audience confused. Couple this with piss poor photography (the camera keeps jumping from character to character during the fight scenes), makes this a very poor film. Rent it or buy it for no more than $5.00.
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