An absolutely cracking premise has LXG, based on a comic book by the legendary Alan Moore. The movie features a team of classic Victorian literary figures (Alan Quartermain, Jekyll and Hyde, Dorian Gray, Mina Harker, the Invisible Man, Tom Sawyer and Captain Nemo) coming together to fight a power mad evil despot.

The opening 20 minutes is top notch as the team are brought together following some futuristic attacks on Victorian Britain and Germany, hitting high gear the rest of the movie is a flurry of special effects, action and explosions, unfortunately not all of these work, some of the effects look just like that - effects, instead of being seamless, Hyde just doesn’t work, all CG but looking like a rubber suit anyway. Nevertheless the action is non stop and you can’t help but go along for the ride. Stuart Townsend as Dorian Gray turns in the best performance, very Johnny Depp, although obviously Sean Connery as Alan Quartermain is the star performer. Peta Wilson as the vampiric Mina Harker has a couple of good scenes (especially when she evades capture by ripping out the throat of her would be pursuer) but is otherwise wasted. Major plus point has to be the look of the film, the Victorian opulence is captured perfectly by production designer Carol Spier. Approached in the right way you can’t fail to enjoy the LXG spectacle.

EXTRAS: DISC ONE: Audio Commentary by Producers Don Murphy and Trevor Albert, and actors Jason Flemyng, Tony Curran and Shane West, Audio commentary by Jacqueline West, John Sullivan and Matthew Gratzner |  Disc 2: Pre Production featurettes: Matters of Pre-Visualisation, Stills Gallery, Production Documentaries: Assembling the League, 17 Deleted and Extended Scenes, Post-production featurettes:        Behind the Fantasy, European Premieres, 3 trailers,        12 TV Spots and Posters