2003 · fantasy · action · thriller
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Directed by Stephen Norrington1h 50m2003
To prevent a world war from breaking out, famous characters from Victorian literature band together to do battle against a cunning villain.
Our read: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive fantasy · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme fantasy / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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