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.
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.
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USA TodayMike Clark
USA TodayMike Clark
The murkiest-looking movie since Ben Affleck's “Daredevil” and about as lacking in charm.
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PremierePeter Debruge
PremierePeter Debruge
Despite its preposterous leaps of logic, it somehow still emerges a reasonably entertaining summer blockbuster.
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!
A stiff. I don't know the comic book series, but it could hardly be as lifeless as this leaden adaptation, in which the weapons have more personality than the characters and the nonstop action often feels like no action at all.
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Village VoiceEd Park
Village VoiceEd Park
Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.