The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Blu-ray]
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Movie Reviews of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen [Blu-ray]
Movie Review: Surprisingly...decent *Spoilers*
Summary: 4 Stars
3.5 stars. For me the movie didn't really start to be fun until after the Venice thingy. I didn't quite understand what that whole thing was about and then sighed with relief when that plot line turned out to be a ruse. I thought there was an interesting assembly of characters set in a Victorian age and I agree Dorian Gray stood out in his performance. I can't quite put my finger on what this film is missing, but I do know that it's missing something. Maybe a better explantion of bringing this assembly of people together in the first place when they, quite frankly, didn't have you in their radar to begin with. Couldn't he go about gathering what he needed from them without all this elaborate drama? Overall, this is an entertaining film and not at all as bad as I feared.Movie Review: Love this movie!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is another great work by Sean Connery!! The movie is really cool too~ combining differen classic novels in one. I really like how it's done. Although squeezing in a female dracula in there so there's a woman is kinda funny... =PMovie Review: The video quality is top rate, the movie not quite
Summary: 4 Stars
I am happy with my purchase of the Blu ray version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Although the reviews it received when it was in the theaters were not very good, it is still an entertaining adventure movie, with a interesting premise -- set in the late 19th century and getting together some of the most famous/infamous fictional heros of the time.
The quality of the blu ray transfer is excellent (5 stars). The pictures are crisp and the sound was clear -- just like it was in the movie theatre.
The movie does not live up to its full potential. While it is exciting to see these characters together, and the actors were all fairly good, they do not seem to develop enough relationship with one another. The plot starts well, but the ending is predictable.
Nonetheless, I showed this movie to relatives who had not seen it before and they enjoyed it and decided to add it to their own DVD collection. I believe the movie is underrated, and many were deterred because of the poor initial reviews.
Movie Review: Fun and Entertaining!
Summary: 4 Stars
Ignore the critics and naysayers - Most of them wouldn't know entertainment unless it exploded in front of their face - Also, people (especially young people don't read the classics anymore - I say this and I'm only 33) - One of the best things about this movie is the use of the literary characters (Love the casting) - I've never read the comic, so I had not been influenced by it upon watching this movie - However, I have read most of the novels these characters were based upon - Fantastic to see them brought to life on the big screen! - dark, somber - perfect mood for this time in history - but i can see why this movie didn't go down well - not enough dumb action, useless bloodshed, stupid jokes, and whiny characters for the massesMovie Review: Who Knew Victorian Heroes Could Be So Super!
Summary: 5 Stars
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is really an extraordinary superhero movie although these heroes aren't from comic books but the books of great literature. A hunter, a scientist, a vampire, an invisible man, an immortal, a spy, and a beast -- the imndomitable Alan Quatermain from of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines; Mina Harker from Bram Stroker's immortal vampire book Dracula; Captain Nemo from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; the sleek and sinister Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's the Picture of Dorian Gray; Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde comes from Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; a grown-up Tom Sawyer, called Agent Sawyer, from Mark Twains various novels; and the thief Rodney Skinner standing in for H. G. Well's Invisible Man-- are all treated as real people who lived, worked, fought, and even died around the turn of twentieth century and that all of the adventures written about them weren't fiction, but just the events that made up the days of their lives. And here they fight a villainous master-mind who is trying to start a world war just to make profits for himself.
I don't know why, but at first, I did not not like this movie. But then I watched it again for a second time and found that despite a certain grimness to the sets that represent 19th century London and Paris, this is a great action/adventure film to rival any James Bond or X-Man movie. It was the kind of a movie that made wished I had read the books all of those heroes-- and the surprise villain-- came from. I think that in spite of the violence, and there is a lot of it, this might be a very good movie for parents to watch with their older kids and point out to them that the great works of literature can be just as exciting as any comic book or video game and get them started on reading just for the pleasure of reading.