slightlymad22 Finishing my look back at the career of Sean Connery, I come to the last movie he ever acted in. The League Of Extraordinary Gentleman (2003)Plot In A Paragraph: A group of famous contemporary fantasy, science fiction, and adventure characters team up on a secret mission.I have never seen this movie in its entirety, as I walked out of the cinema about an hour in.The main thing I remember about this movie was Connery signed on when he didn't understand the script. He was offered roles in The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, but passed as he didn't understand the scripts. So when offered another screenplay he didn't quite get, he took it, hoping it would be a huge hit as the other two were. Connery and the director hated each other. In Empire Magazine, Jason Flemyng was asked if the bust-ups between Sean Connery and director Stephen Norrington were as bad as reported. He replied that they were much worse "My favourite bust-up was in Venice. The League had to walk from Captain Nemo's boat down the street, Magnificent Seven-style. At the end of the take Norrington asked them to do it again, to which Sean shouted 'What? You want us to do that again?' He replied, 'For eighteen million dollars I don't think it's too much to ask you to walk down a road.' To which Connery's reply was unprintable."I found this hard going, and contemplated turning it off more than once. It all defies all logic!! I'm not against movies being a tad unrealistic, but this takes the biscuit. The most interesting thing about viewing this was I have come to the conclusion that Mr Hyde obviously buys his pants at the same place as The Hulk does. Connery hated making the movie, and the finished product so much, he retired from acting.The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen grossed $66 million at the domestic box office to end 2003 as the 44th highest grossing movie of the year.

Blackpool34 Like jim Morrison said "Eric Von Stroheim in the movies. The man they love to hate". This film is one that critics the world over just love to hate! I first watched it in 2003 in the cinema when it had just come out and thought it was an enjoyable romp of a film then. Iv'e just watched it in 2017 all these years later and loved it, had a great laugh watching it! We are not talking clever, intricate high art here when it comes to comicbook adaptions ( Dark Night Rises, Logan etal), and i know all about Sean Connery's attitude towards it plus the "dropping" of the Fu manchu character and the Inclusion of Tom Sawyer to appease US audiences etc, but it's still worth watching. Sean Connery's last big screen performance and he has some great one liners as does the Dorian Grey character. I'd say it's a film that doesn't take itself too seriously, and although Alan Moore hated it, i think it's bursting with kitch fun.

trickyrik73 Firstly I am a massive Alan Moore fan and although this film strayed somewhat from the source material I don't think it deserves the drubbing it received. Yes the M character is a little fleshless but so is pretty much every bond villain ever. The Tom sawyer character is also a little annoying/cheesy but the rest of the cast holds up pretty well. I know I'm a little late reviewing but I just read an article that stated this film was the reason Sean Connery retired from acting.....if true, douche move Connery. The Dorian Grey character is both sinister and intriguing and Stuart Townsend nailed it. Okay, okay Peta Wilson I concede is terrible but she always has been so it came as no great shock and you get the feeling Connery phoned it in but the film is entertaining regardless

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.