The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

PG-13

2003

1h 50m

Fantasy

Action

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A team of extraordinary figures culled from great adventure literature (including Alan Quatermain, vampiress Mina Harker from Dracula, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, an American Secret Service agent named Sawyer, Captain Nemo, and Dorian Gray), are called to stop a villain intent on turning the nations of the world against one another.

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Critics Consensus

Just ordinary. LXG is a great premise ruined by poor execution.

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Karen Han

Polygon

03/09/2020

It's big, silly, and entertaining, and even its most naked franchise ambitions feel fun rather than frustrating, because they're so blatant.

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Neil Norman

London Evening Standard

01/11/2018

Sadly, the rot sets in just over the halfway mark when the action loses its identity of fustian heroism and degenerates into another arcade video game of mundane destruction. A pity.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/28/2010

2/5

Enough deaths here for a more restrictive rating.

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Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

09/24/2020

3/5

Your enjoyment of this fascinatingly flawed action-adventure fantasy will come down to how far you are prepared to go along with its original and absolutely off-the-wall premise.

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Tim Brayton

Alternate Ending

05/10/2020

1/5

Appallingly stupid and incompetently made.

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

11/16/2019

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The League of Extraordinary Gentleman can be summed up in one word: ordinary.

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Ben W

@Username618 Jun 30

Comic's much worse though.

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R T

@RT37083768 Mar 19

Not the best. Don't think anyone is having a good time in this film.

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Matthew T

@RT18266008 Mar 16

Another criminally underrated movie - 17%!! For comparison, the so-bad-it's-virtually-unwatchable Captain Marvel has 79%! This movie is very flawed, but also very enjoyable, and it was the first superhero team-up movie long before Avengers graced our screens, and it gets as much right as it gets wrong. In fact, the much more successful Avengers Assemble movie owes a lot of its success to this - emphasizing what LXG did right, and avoiding what it gets wrong. The heroes in the team (all from literary backgrounds) are highly distrustful of each other (a tone that Avengers copied verbatim). There are some superb one-liners, and some expository dialogue that absolute clunks. But it's forgiveable, as the atmosphere is superbly dark full of streampunk/dieselpunk touches. It also has one of the best plot twists of any movie of this sort, which Avengers and Batman Begins took inspiration from but couldn't match. In the end, this is an enjoyable proto-Avengers experience. 70%. Not 17%.

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Jack M

@JackMiehof Feb 16

James Bond joins Gothic superheroes in this extraordinary movie based on a graphic novel. The critics hated it, so you know it's good!

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HotRod D

@HotRodD Feb 5

I don’t understand the negative viewer reviews? The critics I understand. They are always wrong with their self indulgent opinions. But I read a few complaints about the CGI not being very good. IMO it’s fine for a movie that 23 years old. The cast is really good. The story and cast are great. If you like 90s style mystery movies? You won’t be disappointed. This is fun movie that still stands up to scrutiny.

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Enrique R

@NostalgicNerd Jan 20

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it’s a very bad movie with horrible CGI. With ridiculous ideas. The only part that carries is Sean Connery, he does fine. I definitely don’t recommend it, if you love watching 2000s action horror movies, then you probably will enjoy it. Overall, I give it a 3/10 or 2.5/5 stars.

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Synopsis

A team of extraordinary figures culled from great adventure literature (including Alan Quatermain, vampiress Mina Harker from Dracula, the Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, an American Secret Service agent named Sawyer, Captain Nemo, and Dorian Gray), are called to stop a villain intent on turning the nations of the world against one another.

Director: Stephen Norrington
Producer: Don Murphy, Trevor Albert
Screenwriter: James Robinson, Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Fantasy Violence|Innuendo|Language)
Genre: Fantasy, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 11, 2003, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 13, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $66.5M
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, Dolby A, Surround, DTS, Dolby SR