Thanks for the memories!

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

In an alternate steam-punk universe in the Victorian era, a group of famous fictional characters unite on a mission to prevent a worldwide war. These characters include Captain Nemo, the vampiress Mina, the Invisible Man, American secret agent Tom Sawyer, Dorian Gray, and Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde, led by adventurer and explorer Allan Quatermain.The special effects range from decent to bad, the storyline is too linear and predictable despite having a twist halfway through, dreadful dialogues and too many stupid situations that defy logic even in a fantasy world logic. Lots of noise and explosions, hardly serves to entertain, and then easily forget.For those who know the particular canon stories of these mythical characters, it is sad to see the treatment given to them in this film, just plain sad (if you are a fan of some of this characters you may even get angry), and even more sad that this is Sean Connery last movie before retirement, because he deserved much better than this.

It's about 500 yard long submarine with 3 inch gap from both sides in water canal taking 90 degrees turns through city water canal network where one Venezian Gondola would have troubles turning. Car driving 120 mph through narrow streets where decent cyclist have to brake and so on.... Film was filled with stuff like this. I know it should be watched from comic book perspective but it's too much.Someone said there will be sequel ??? omg

This movie is one of those interesting film that is incredibly polarizing. Along the same lines as a film like Moulin Rouge. On one hand it is disappointing if your expectations are too high. To be fair though the film on paper looks like it should be one of the greatest films of the new millennium. But because our expectations were not met, does that make it a bad film. It does deliver on most of its ideas, with memorable characters. The action is pretty interesting, and the visuals are not bad for early 2000's. I walked away from the film feeling satisfied in the product, but not wowed like I thought I would be. It's an above average film for me, and it was an enjoyable viewing.

If I was going to go by the first 15 minutes of this film, I'd say it was the foundations of a gripping and exciting period action film. Those introductory moments of this movie had me gripped, only to be botched by the biggest letdown I've ever seen. It's not often I don't watch a movie the whole way through, but this really did go from something great, to something so stupid it just falls into a league of its own! I realise this is based on a comic series of the same premise, but even in those boundaries this movie is rubbish!How does this amazing story start? In 1899, what resembles a British World War I tank breaks into the Bank of England and steals millions of Pounds of gold, the crime apparently being enacted by men dressed in German army uniforms. This is later compounded by a similar attack on a German Zeppelin factory, where British soldiers and a masked figure in a dark cloak destroy a large amount of equipment and kidnap a group of scientists. This results in the recruitment of Allan Quatermain, who is enjoying retirement in Kenya, right up until the moment heavily armed men burst in and try to kill him. Fending them off, he returns to London, whereupon he is confronted by an invisible man......and it's all downhill from there.The rest of the movie is just a chase across the world using ridiculous CGI technology and in the company of idiotically bad representations of icons of folk law and literature, including Dorian Grey, Captain Nemo (and a super-powered Submarine thing), chemist Mina Harker (who doubles as a bloodthirsty Vampire), Tom Sawyer (a US Secret Service Agent) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (who apparently doubles as a weedy nerd and the Incredible Hulk!).Now that I know that these are character depictions of a comic series, I understand why this has been done, but for those who don't (like myself going into this movie), you'd think this was conceived through some kind of fever dream. Sean Connery flies off to the ends of the Earth to pursue a masked baddie, joined by a bunch of misrepresentations about as subtle as a train accident in Piccadilly Circus!For what I saw, Sean Connery was once again the most captivating actor in the whole thing, keeping me glued to every line he said. As for the rest, the problem is they act far too 90's, not in the way people would act in the late-Victorian era. Indeed this is a bit of a personal peeve but it's quite a jarring one as you don't exactly find yourself being immersed. Although the names of Dorian Grey, Dr. Jekyll and so forth are household names from literature, you really don't know much about them at all, it's based entirely on name recognition and that's pretty much it! So many questions, not enough answers, and I found myself being left completely uninterested from the 15 minute mark onwards.Overall, give this one a miss. It's not a film to watch if you don't know the comic, in fact it's not a film to watch even if you do. In general it is a very, very poor display, a sadly humiliating note to end Sean Connery's career on.