The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2003 Blu Ray 1080p DTS

I must say that an entertaining film, well made and with good actors, in addition to that, Sean Conney giving classes on how to stand out, even the secondary ones are good, for example Mr. Hyde. A film that if we remove the prejudice of being called "it doesn't look like Alan Moore's comic", we can say that it is entertaining and fulfills the function of making time pass quickly, a shame that it has not been well received by the Mainstream audience (the same one that thinks that "The Avengers" with TERRIBLE actors is a "great movie"), now the useful data... The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , also promoted as  LXG , is a 2003  steampunk [4] / dieselpunk   superhero film  loosely based on the  first volume  of the  comic book  series  of the same name  by  Alan Moore  and  Kevin O'Neill . Distributed by  20th Century Fox , it was released on 11 July 2003 in the United States, and 17 October in the United Kingdom. It was directed by  Stephen Norrington  and starred  Sean Connery ,  Naseeruddin Shah ,  Peta Wilson ,  Tony Curran ,  Stuart Townsend ,  Shane West ,  Jason Flemyng , and  Richard Roxburgh . It was Connery's final role in a theatrically released live-action film before his retirement in 2006 and death in 2020. As with the comic book source material, the film features prominent  pastiche  and  crossover  themes [5]  set in the late 19th century. It features an assortment of fictional literary characters appropriate to the period who act as  Victorian era   superheroes . It draws on the works of  Jules Verne ,  H. G. Wells ,  Bram Stoker ,  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ,  H. Rider Haggard ,  Ian Fleming ,  Herman Melville ,  Oscar Wilde ,  Robert Louis Stevenson ,  Edgar Allan Poe ,  Gaston Leroux , and  Mark Twain , albeit all adapted for the film. It received generally unfavorable reviews but was financially successful, grossing over $179 million worldwide in theaters, and earning rental revenue of $48.6 million and DVD sales (as of 2003) of $36.4 million, against its $78 million budget. Plot In 1899, several terrorists posed as German soldiers to break into the  Bank of England  and steal  Leonardo da Vinci 's blueprints of  Venice 's foundations. Days later, the same terrorists posed as British soldiers, kidnap several  German  scientists and blow up a  Zeppelin  factory in Berlin. The attacks resulted both the  British Empire  and the  German Empire  to be at odds with each other, which may lead to the start of an imminent world war. A British emissary named Sanderson Reed arrives to  Kenya Colony  to recruit adventurer and hunter  Allan Quatermain , who had retired following the death of his son. Quatermain initially refuses until a group of assassins try to kill him, resulting in the death of his longtime friend Nigel and the bombardment of his club building. In  London , Quatermain meets Reed's boss " M ", who explains that the terrorists' leader (known as the  Fantom ) initiated the attacks on London and Berlin as a means to start a world war for profit, and that he intends to attack the world leaders during a conference meeting in Venice in three days. To prevent this, M is forming the latest generation of the  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen , consisting of Quatermain,  Captain Nemo ,  vampire  chemist  Mina Harker , and  invisible thief Rodney Skinner . The League travels to the  London Docklands  to recruit  Dorian Gray , Mina's former lover who is immortal due to a missing cursed portrait. The Fantom and his assassins attack Gray's house, but the League, aided by  U.S. Secret Service  Agent  Tom Sawyer , fends them off. After Gray and Sawyer join the League, they capture  Edward Hyde  in  Paris , who transforms back into his alter ego  Dr. Henry Jekyll , and joins the League after being offered amnesty for his crimes. The League travels to Venice in Nemo's submarine, the  Nautilus . During the journey, Jekyll is having trouble controlling his Hyde urges. In addition, the League deduce there may be a  mole  on board when a camera's  flash powder  residue is found in the wheelhouse and one of the vials of Jekyll's transformation formula has been stolen. Suspicion falls on Skinner, but he is nowhere to be found. The  Nautilus  arrives in Venice just as the bombs detonate, causing the  Piazza San Marco  and the rest of the city to start collapsing. Sawyer uses one of Nemo's automobiles to signal Nemo in launching a missile to take down a key building and stop the destruction, while Quatermain confronts the Fantom, who is unmasked as M before escaping again. Dorian reveals himself to be the mole by murdering Nemo's  first mate   Ishmael  and stealing the  Nautilus 's  exploration pod. M, Dorian, and Reed leave a  phonograph  recording for the League declaring that their true goal is to ignite the world war by using the League's physical elements, and that the previous attacks, the journey and the secret conference were just distractions, all to allow Dorian to steal Skinner's skin sample, Mina's blood, and Jekyll's potion, and as well as document Nemo's science (as Gray used a camera to take pictures of the interiors of the  Nautilus , which explains the flash powder residue) for M. It was also revealed that Quatermain was only enlisted to capture Jekyll to get his potion, and that Dorian only stole the elements in exchange of retrieving his portrait which was stolen by M, who plans to synthesize and sell off the elements to start off the world war. The  Nautilus  is damaged by bombs hidden on board by Gray, but Jekyll saves the day by taking control of Hyde and having himself drain the flooded engine rooms. Eventually, Skinner secretly messages the League, informing them that he has sneaked aboard the exploration pod and telling them to follow his directions. Using Skinner's directions, the League reaches northern  Mongolia , where they spot M's fortress hidden beneath the mountains before reuniting with Skinner, who informs that the fortress is a factory used to create and develop M's weaponry, including heavily-armed tanks and submarines, flamethrowers, automatic guns, invisible spies, vampiric assassins, and Hyde-like soldiers. Skinner also states that M is having the kidnapped scientists to synthesize on the formulas by kidnapping and holding their families hostage, and that M plans to leave for Europe tonight to sell samples of the formulas to competing nations. With this knowledge, the League set out their plan to stop M in his tracks. Nemo and Hyde rescue the scientists and their families while fighting M's second-in-command Dante, who overdoses on the Hyde formula. Skinner sets the explosive charges to destroy the factory and its weaponry, while Mina kills Dorian by exposing him to his portrait. Dante has managed to corner Nemo and Dr. Jekyll after Hyde's formula runs out, but when Skinner's explosives detonate, it creates an escape route for Nemo and Dr. Jekyll while Dante is crushed to death by the collapsing factory. In the meantime, Quatermain and Sawyer confront M and identify him as  Professor James Moriarty , longtime archenemy of genius detective  Sherlock Holmes  who had changed identities following his  alleged death  at the  Reichenbach Falls . However, Sawyer is taken hostage by an invisible Reed, forcing Quatermain to shoot down Reed at the cost of being fatally stabbed by Moriarty, who then flees away with his samples. Using the skills that Quatermain taught him, Sawyer manages to kill Moriarty by shooting him at a long distance, and his samples sink into the icy water. With Moriarty and his cohorts dead and their plot foiled, Quatermain dies in peace, but not before blessing Sawyer to continue his services for the new century. Quatermain is buried beside his son in Kenya. The League recall how a  witch doctor  had blessed Quatermain for saving his village, promising that Africa would never let him die. The remaining League members—Nemo, Mina, Skinner, Jekyll, and Sawyer—depart, agreeing to keep using their powers for good in the new century. The witch doctor arrives and performs a ritual that summons an unnatural storm, with a bolt of lightning striking a rifle that Sawyer left on Quatermain's grave. Cast Sean Connery  as  Allan Quatermain , a legendary adventurer and hunter skilled in tracking, marksmanship, and hand-to-hand combat. Naseeruddin Shah  as  Nemo , captain of the  Nautilus  and a gifted swordsman and inventor. Peta Wilson  as Dr.  Mina Harker , a chemist who retains the immortality and vampiric abilities given to her by  Count Dracula . Tony Curran  as  Rodney Skinner , a  gentleman thief  who got his hands on  Griffin 's invisibility serum. Stuart Townsend  as  Dorian Gray , Mina's former lover and an experienced duelist rendered immortal by a cursed painting. Shane West  as  Tom Sawyer , an American Secret Service agent recruited by Quatermain to assist the League. Jason Flemyng  as Dr.  Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde , a scientist who developed a dual personality after experimenting on himself. In his Hyde form, he has immense strength, endurance, and a love of violence. Richard Roxburgh  as  The Fantom  / " M " /  Prof. James Moriarty , an old enemy of  Sherlock Holmes  who uses his penchant for disguises and powerful intellect to manipulate the League. Tom Goodman-Hill  as Sanderson Reed, a representative of the British government who recruits Quatermain into the League. David Hemmings  as Nigel, an old friend of Allan Quatermain's who poses as him to drive off "story-seekers". He is murdered by Moriarity's agents. Terry O'Neill  as Ishmael, Captain Nemo's first mate. Max Ryan  as Dante, one of Moriarty’s henchmen who is transformed into an inhuman monster using Jekyll's transformation serum.