Sean Connery

Naseeruddin Shah

Shane West

Peta Wilson

Stuart Townsend

Jason Flemyng

Tony Curran

Richard Roxburgh

Max Ryan

Tom Goodman-Hill

David Hemmings

Terry O'Neill

Rudolf Pellar

Robert Willox

Robert Orr

Joel Kirby

Marek Vašut

Ewart James Walters

Robert Vahey

Sylvester Morand

Mariano Titanti

Huggy Leaver

James Babson

Pavel Bezděk

Stanislav Adamickij

Michael McGuffie

Michal Grün

San Shella

Ellen Savaria

Riz Meedin

Sartaj Garewal

Neran Persaud

Andrew Rajan

Stephen Norrington

James Robinson

Trevor Jones

Dan Laustsen

Paul Rubell

Trevor Albert

Don Murphy

Veronika Hladikova

Scott Wilder

Donna Isaacson

Lucinda Syson

Jacqueline West

John T. Sweeney

Rick Benattar

Bruce Devan

Mark Gordon

Michael Nelson

Lesley Aletter

Josh Campbell

Igor Jeleň

Conrad Sigurdson

Michael Jenkins

Steve Reding

Damon Marcellino

Dean Brkic

Philip Waley

Mike Higgins

Jill Bennett

Kate St-Pierre

Michelle Weller

Doris Donnenberg

Andrew Trosmans

Peter Eusebe

Adam Kay

Geoff Alexander

Mark Holding

Simon Rhodes

Erik Aadahl

Jay Wilkinson

Domenic DiGiorgio

Damon Bard

Douglas Aiken

Nathan Abbot

Joe Viskocil

Jaremy Aiello

Stephanie Hamilton

Alexandra Altrocchi

Michael Caplan

Tim Alexander

Matthew Gratzner

Mark Kenna

Philip Borg

Laura Hainke

Mirka Janatova

Michael Herbick

Carol Spier

Marco Bittner Rosser

Elinor Rose Galbraith

Jindřich Kočí

James McAteer

James F. Truesdale

Peter Nicolakakos

Sarah Emily Nelson

Jana Chovancova

Constantine Sekeris

Phillip Tellez

Ron Gress

Ronnie Lombard

Paul Edwards

Michael Hruska

Manuel Plank-Jorge

Neil Morrill

Patrick Banister

Klaus Fuxjäger

Garrett Benson

Jaromír Šedina

Larry D. Horricks

Wayne Baker

Tim Scotti-Henson

Hana Kučerová

Michelle Taylor

Tricia Cameron

Pauline Heys

Duncan Jarman

Mária Hubáčková

Bob Kretschmer

Brian Bulman

Dave Evans

Greg Gladstone

Joy Ellison

David Ebner

Don Haggerty

Michal Krbeček

Lonnie A. Mathes

Charlie Davis

Marc Tantin

Gary Cohen

Kevin Abercrombie

Fantasy

Action

Thriller

Science Fiction

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

20th Century Fox

Don Murphy Productions

Mediastream Dritte Film

Germany

United States of America

This movie was amazing! Went to see it at the cinema when it first got released back in 2003. For the time the special effects in this movie are mind blowing. A must watch in my opinion.

Enjoyed it.

<em>'The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'</em> does nothing all that extraordinary but produces a fun time nevertheless. Great cast, fast paced plot and entertaining action. The ending slightly underwhelms, but I still found myself satisfied with it. The special effects are good, it's only "The Nautilus" that looks less than so.

Sean Connery does carry the film as Quatermain, he's terrific throughout - really enjoyed the way his character carries himself. I liked Tony Curran's Skinner too. I actually rate all the characters to be honest, with Jason Flemyng (Jekyll/Hyde) and Stuart Townsend (Gray) being my picks of the rest.

Merits a watch, even if Connery didn't remember it all that fondly.

CinemaSerf

Filipe Manuel Neto

**It works as a piece of entertainment, if we don't think too much about it. But it is, in fact, a film full of problems.**

I just saw this movie right now. I've always heard a lot of bad things about him, but now, after seeing him, I wonder what really went wrong here. The film, to be quite honest, is good enough to meet my expectations (even though they were quite low, I confess), and it seemed to me to be a quite acceptable piece of entertainment, if we don't think about it too much and forget the graphic novel by Alan Moore. It's an adventure film, which easily captivates those who like this style and which gives us good action scenes, with characters we know and which is full of that unmistakable Victorian charm that is still in fashion today. After all, what the hell happened here for this film to be such a resounding failure?

Let's start by talking a little about the script, which brings together bizarre characters from various literary works from the same period: Tom Sawyer, Alain Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jeckill/Mr. Hyde, Mrs. Mina Harker, the Invisible Man (who for rights reasons had to change his name in this film), Dorian Gray and James Moriarty, to name a few. Literature connoisseurs have already realized that the amalgamation of different characters from different books and authors has a lot of potential, it could create a kind of “19th century Avengers”. The problem is that the potential was lost when the screenwriters ignored the stories of these characters and created “action figures” with the same name and some similarity. There is mutual distrust, attempts to bring some depth to the film, but in general, the story is shallow and bloated.

Throughout the film, we observe that there is no concern about precisely recreating the Victorian environment. In fact, the film is a kind of alternative history where we even see the use of technologies that only appeared long after 1900, such as sonar, radar and automobiles with automatic gearboxes. This “salad” increases the level of special and visual effects and also the creative breadth of the producers, but I don't know to what extent the public accepted it. In addition to these problems, we still have logic holes in the plot and dialogues that couldn't be more cheesy and poorly written.

Directed by Stephen Norrington, the film seems to have had no director at the helm: we can see the technical ineptitude, the disregard for key points of the project and the director's obsession with Victorian aesthetics, action scenes and CGI (the only really good things the film has to give us). In fact, the visual aspects are incredibly crafted, and we can see this in the elaborate decoration of the Nautilus, the recreation of Venice and even Mina's very elegant dresses. The action scenes are immersive, at the level of a blockbuster, and the cinematography and effects are very good. The editing, on the other hand, already fails in several moments, giving the film an uneven rhythm, which accelerates in the action sequences and dies soon after.

As for the cast, what can we say? Sir Sean Connery, despite the terrible working relationship with the director and deep dissatisfaction with the entire project, did a job well done and left the cinema with a bitter taste in his mouth, but his duty done (this was his last film). Peta Wilson and Stuart Townsend do a decent job, but with little soul. Naseeruddin Shah ignores the entire tragic depth of his character and is just a “gadget king” with a solution for everything. Jason Flemyng lives in a love-hate relationship with his fictional alter-ego that makes no sense at the end of the film, and Tony Curran and Shane West seem to have been highly underutilized. And what about Richard Roxburgh? It must have been one of the worst versions of a villain I've ever seen: a barrage of clichés and arrogance don't make a villain, they just make an idiot.