Action/Adventure - Director: Gore Verbinski - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Bill Nighy, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Chow Yun-Fat
Production Year: 1996 - Action/Adventure - Director: Tom Clegg - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Daragh O'Malley, Oliver Cotton, Jason Durr, Sean Bean, Allie Byrne
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Advantages: All round entertainment, great special effects Disadvantages: none
The League of ExtraordinaryGentlemen (Twentieth Cenury Fox)
Produced by Trevor Albert & Don Murray
Directed by Stephen Morrington (Blade)
Running Time 1 Hour 45 mins
Special Features include:- Audio Commentaries
Interactive Menus
Bonus Footage
Includes main feature sub-titles in English for the hearing impaired.
Starring :- Sean Connery
Shane West
Stuart Townsend
Peta Wilson
Jason Fleming
Set in the Victorian times (1899) in a different world dimension, Allan Quatermain a famous adventurer and crack shot marksman is tracked down by a consort for the queen in a retreat in ...
Advantages: well-directed, attractive, great concept Disadvantages: shoddily scripted, badly plotted, some terrible acting
Call it arrogance. Call it stupidity. Or perhaps attribute it to the death of the wonderful Alexander Walker, without whose expert guidance I am left floundering on a sea of cinematic confusion. Whatever it is, it amounts to me being convinced that it's worth seeing a film that has been universally panned since I might like it after all... or maybe not.
Actually, let's be fair. It's not that I didn't enjoy myself watching The League of Extraodinary Gentlemen, it's just that enjoyed myself for almost entirely the wrong reasons...
CAST
Allan Quartermain SEAN CONNERY
Dorian Gray STUART TOWNSEND
M RICHARD ROXBURGH
Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde JASON FLEMYNG
Tom Sawyer SHANE WEST
Capt. Nemo NASEERUDDIN SHAH
Mina Harker PETA WILSON
Rodney Skinner TONY CURRAN
Directed by STEPHEN NORRINGTON (Blade)
Written by ...
Advantages: A few good action scenes, good effects. Disadvantages: A bit flat and rushed. Acting was less than perfect.
I wanted to like this, I truly did. I like Sean Connery and Stuart Townsend, so I went to the effort of seeing it at the cinema. Though I did subsequently buy this film on DVD, I did wait until it was cheap.
The premise is that all of the protagonists from various Victorian literature all get together to fight a common Enemy. We have the invisible man (though not the original), Dracula's Bride, Dorian Grey, Captain Nemo and Jekyl/Hyde. I can't remember who Sean Connery was supposed to be... Perhaps he was just made up for the story.
The plot is alright, but Connery is getting a bit old for these sorts of roles and Townsend's acting was a tad wooden. Mildly entertaining, but not filmic genius by a long way.
The main issue I had with it was that it all felt a bit rushed. The film isn't particularly long, and could have done really ...
Features the Sean Connery films THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN and RISING SUN.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Release date
16/04/2007
No of Discs
2
Catalogue No
2976801060
Barcode
5039036033138
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Special Features
Interactive menu
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1
DVD Description
Features the Sean Connery films THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN and RISING SUN. In THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, the world is on the brink of war. Mycroft Holmes is sent by the British government to round up various figures from Victorian-era literature in an attempt to find some solutions. First on the list is explorer Allan Quatermain, quickly installed as leader of the ramshackle outfit. Among the plethora of mythical figures joining Quatermain are The Invisible Man, Captain Nemo, Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, and many others. In RISING SUN, a detective is called in to investigate the murder of a beautiful girl found dead in the boardroom of a large corporation.
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