The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Critic Reviews

Has the sweat stains of wasted energy; it's dreary, yet frantic.Read the full review

Succeeds the same way the original comic books did: by making the conflicts and dilemmas basic enough for a five-year-old, while giving the heroes and villains glamorous outfits and layers of complexity, to thicken the broth. Read the full review

And you wait--and wait--for the magic of movies. Read the full review

It just doesn't work...This isn't a blend of modern and classic so much as a collision. Read the full review

In a summer of high-octane action and testosterone-boosted thrills, this movie is out of its league. Read the full review

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.Read the full review

Nothing anchors the lighter-than-air story as it drifts away under the direction of Stephen Norrington ("Blade") into an FX stratosphere where wit, character and vigorous storytelling cease to matter.Read the full review

These guys have dumbed down a comic book. Read the full review

It depicts the world of a century ago in a way that comments on the anxieties facing the world today, and it does so, at least for a while, with cleverness and a sense of fun.Read the full review