40
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
Has the sweat stains of wasted energy; it's dreary, yet frantic.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
25
Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
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!
20
Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.
20
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
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.
40
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.
40
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Simply put, it’s too much of a good thing, this unreined tumult of chaos.
38
The murkiest-looking movie since Ben Affleck's “Daredevil” and about as lacking in charm.
38
Despite its preposterous leaps of logic, it somehow still emerges a reasonably entertaining summer blockbuster.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Rick Groen
The concept is high but everything else is merely fair to middling, one more or less watchable B-movie in megabucks clothing.
40
Dallas Observer by Robert Wilonsky
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.