Director: Stephen Norrington
Cast: Sean Connery, Stuart Townsend, Peta Wilson, Naseeruddin Shah


Allan Quatermain of King Solomon’s Mine fame (Sean Connery) is in retirement. He is a cynical disillusioned man. An emissary of the British Government visits him at his club in British East Africa and wants to recruit him for a special mission. The British and the Germans are about to go to war over attacks on the Bank of England in London and the Zeppelin factory in Berlin. Quatermain refuses to listen till the club itself is attacked by armed men. Quatermain agrees to investigate. In London he meets a man called M who in the process of gathering a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to counter the current threat from the Fantom. The story is set in the late nineteenth century
The story is a brilliant idea to have fictional characters come together to fight the evils of the world. These heroes are the Invisible Man, Captain Nemo, Ishmael, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, Mina Harker and Tom Sawyer creations of H G Wells, Jules Verne, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker and Mark Twain.
The villain turns out to be M who turns out to be Moriarty, the arch enemy of Sherlock Holmes. The movie released on July11, 2003 did good business and grossed more than 179 million dollars. It was directed by Stephen Norrington. The rest of the cast was not in the same league as Sean Connery perhaps the reason for the dissatisfaction after seeing the movie.