paul-29172 This really was a terrible movie, and Sean Connery knew it.

Mirnes Mehmedovic It's about 500 yard long submarine with 3 inch gap from both sides in water canal taking 90 degrees turns through city water canal network where one Venezian Gondola would have troubles turning. Car driving 120 mph through narrow streets where decent cyclist have to brake and so on.... Film was filled with stuff like this. I know it should be watched from comic book perspective but it's too much.Someone said there will be sequel ??? omg

SquigglyCrunch Having watched this movie years ago and loving it, I decided that it was time for another watch. Unfortunately, the movie turned out to be very disappointing. The plot of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was pretty unoriginal. A bunch of special people have to stop some evil dude before he destroys something. It's been used to death, but it works. Unfortunately, everything else is presented poorly. The characters are, to put it lightly, awful. There's so little development that you can't help but cringe every time they try to make you care about them or are presented with some sort of obstacle. I just didn't care what happened to them. If they all died it wouldn't have affected my view on the movie at all. Most of the characters felt like they existed for a single purpose too, such as providing a cool rifle for the main character or providing transportation for everyone. Furthermore a lot of the characters had useless skills. Considering the time in which the movie takes place, it seems rather inconvenient that someone would still use swords and his fists to fight when everyone's packing a machine gun. Yet somehow, it works, and it doesn't make a wink of sense. Some characters also had inconsistencies with their powers, specifically Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. Part of why the characters sucked was because of how poorly paced it is. The first half-hour is spent getting all the characters together, the next half-hour has some "character development" and "plot", and the last hour is just the climax. So there's barely any time for anything but the ending, which unfortunately wasn't that good anyway. The movie barely gave itself any time to develop anything, which is one reason why it struggled so much. The special effects are absolute trash. Maybe for the time they were good, but nowadays they are unbearably bad. Now maybe that's unfair criticism considering when this movie came out, but it still stood out to me enough for it to be distracting. And considering they didn't have to animate everything is also distracting (like the wavy black cloak. It's a cloak, just make one instead of making a CGI one).The movie is extremely predictable. Now that may be because I'd seen it already, but it was years ago, and even now I notice that even if I hadn't seen it the events would have been the most blatantly obvious thing in the world. Now there was one unpredictable part, which was the twist ending. But it's presented so horribly that I actually didn't even understand it until a few minutes later when they had to explain it. The best twist endings are those that don't require an explanation, but when there's so little focus on it in the first place and then BOOM! It shows up again and it's the twist, you left scratching your head thinking "So what? What's the big deal?" until the movie has to explain it to you, at which point you say "Oh, okay". The twist doesn't make you freak out, even when it's explained, because you just don't care, and you have no reason to care. It would have been better if they just forgot the twist ending and moved on with the "story", because at least it wouldn't feel so dang cliché, nor would I have been nearly as confused. One thing I did like was the idea of a bunch of fictional characters from classic stories coming together in a team. It's sort of like the Avengers only none of these characters have anything to do with each other. It feels more like a giant fanfiction crossover, but that's not always a bad thing. In the way that this movie tried to approach it was good, but everything else suffered. Also I really liked the title. It's long and doesn't tell you exactly what the movie will be about. By that I mean it doesn't explain what the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is in the title, but it sounds cool so it gets you curious about it. It's a bit misleading though because there is a woman in it. Overall The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had a few small cool things about it, but everything else was extremely lacking. It was predictable, poorly developed in every way, fake-looking, and oddly (and poorly) paced. In the end I wouldn't recommend this movie unless you want to either ruin your great childhood memories of it or if your just curious as to how it holds up.

Jeffrey Dawson This movie is one of those interesting film that is incredibly polarizing. Along the same lines as a film like Moulin Rouge. On one hand it is disappointing if your expectations are too high. To be fair though the film on paper looks like it should be one of the greatest films of the new millennium. But because our expectations were not met, does that make it a bad film. It does deliver on most of its ideas, with memorable characters. The action is pretty interesting, and the visuals are not bad for early 2000's. I walked away from the film feeling satisfied in the product, but not wowed like I thought I would be. It's an above average film for me, and it was an enjoyable viewing.