It was cool, in a way, but it also has many many flaws. I like the special effects and the fact that they are all known characters. It's the verge of a Third World War, so a few special people are put together for a secret mission to stop the plans of the evil mastermind that's causing it all. The League's members are Allan Quatermain (Sean Connery), Tom Sawyer (Shane West), Dorian Gray (Stuart Townsend), Captain Nemo (Naseeruddin Shah), Dr. Jekyll (Jason Flemyng), Mina Harker (Peta Wilson), Rodney Skinner (Tony Curran).
In a way it was very annoying that everything was explained with so many words. I mean: saying Mina Harker is already enough, there was no reason for her to narrate her whole story!! Dracula is a very famous story, I knew her name as soon as I heard it, but the point is, if one doesn't know the name, one should look it up, not have it all said on the screen, it gets incredibly boring for those who already knows it. Explanations are very much appreciated in the case of Rodney Skinner, because he's not the original character, he's not the original Invisible Man, so they tell us that after his death Skinner stole his formula and made himself invisible, and now would appreciate a cure... but there was no reason to explain every detail of the other characters' stories. About Dorian's portrait , Mina's condition... yeah yeah I know it. Boooring. Even when making a joke they need to explain it, like when Quatermain named Phileas Fogg. The name was enough, but he went on naming the title of the book, making it boring. They clearly have no ammiration or respect for their audience's education or intellect. They think the audience is too uneducated to know those names, and too dumb to be able to google Dorian Gray! I mean, one can't know everything, but if one cares to know it, it's easy to google it these days. And if one doesn't care, then there really is no need to tell them, is there?
Other absurd things were the fact that the bad guys shooted like devils, bullets like rain, without hitting anyone of course, but the absurd point is that when they meet Nemo face to face they stop and tell him "draw your pistol" ... :-/ absurd, why should they do that???Did they find a sense of honor they didn't have a moment before? Nemo says "I walk a different path", well good for you, but you can do that only because they're idiots! Of course, in movies evil always is stupid, it has to be...
They also made Dorian immortal. That's a bit excessive, isn't it? He wasn't immortal, his beauty was.
I don't know how I feel about the Nautilus, I mean this version of the Nautilus, a bit and white pointy thing. It's a cool vessel, I'd say, but of course it's not "THE" Nautilus... 'The sword of the ocean' tsk!
Mina the vampire walks among wounded men like nothing, not caring about all the blood at all... and immortal Dorian who has lived for I don't know how many years but really a lot, finally dies simply by looking at his portrait..because they said that if he looks at it the spell will go away... *sigh*
I don't like Mina here because the actress for some reason speaks so slowly, with such a low voice, I can hardly hear her, but then the music and the sound effects are so loud they make my head explode. Still, I liked her when she gave an impression of Quatermain, which consisted in talking the same way Connery did :lol: it was good, very good, funny :lol:
I liked Quatermain's definition of the american way of shooting "fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target" :lol: that's what they always do in the movies, firing hundreds of bullets and never hitting anyone...
The man assembling the team calls himself M, and I thought at first it was to remind of James Bond's M, but no, it turns out the M stands for Moriarty... and again, they really had to name Sherlock Holmes?? It was a stupid comment, as if someone told you they know you while you want to be incognito, and you reply "who? Jack the son of David and Jane?? No, of course not"= makes no sense.
What was that at the end? Is that man bringing Quatermain back to life? I know "Africa will never allow me to die", but does it mean forever and ever???
The only good thing they did was to make Dorian one of the bad guys, the traitor. It was so wrong for him to be one of the heroes...
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