Synopsis
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
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Cast
- Sean ConneryAllan Quatermain
- Naseeruddin ShahCaptain Nemo
- Shane WestTom Sawyer
- Peta WilsonMina Harker
- Stuart TownsendDorian Gray
- Jason FlemyngDr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
- Tony CurranRodney Skinner / The Invisible Man
- Richard RoxburghM
- Max RyanDante
- Tom Goodman-HillSanderson Reed
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The concept is high but everything else is merely fair to middling, one more or less watchable B-movie in megabucks clothing. - 40
The A.V. Club
League begins as a smart variation on the summer blockbuster, then loses its nerve in a second half sure to satisfy neither cheap-thrill-seekers nor fans of neglected literary oddities. - 40
The New York Times
Has the sweat stains of wasted energy; it's dreary, yet frantic. - 40
Austin Chronicle
Simply put, it’s too much of a good thing, this unreined tumult of chaos. - 40
Dallas Observer
Moore invested his characters with flaws, with a tangible humanity; God knows they never felt the need to explain themselves, as the film does, rendering it something akin to one long footnote. - 38
USA Today
The murkiest-looking movie since Ben Affleck's “Daredevil” and about as lacking in charm. - 38
Premiere
Despite its preposterous leaps of logic, it somehow still emerges a reasonably entertaining summer blockbuster. - 25
Christian Science Monitor
Opium- addicted Allan Quatermain becomes none other than Sean Connery. At least he gives a real movie-star performance, which is more than the other gentlemen manage. Extraordinary? Balderdash!