Kowabunga

Sean Connery stars as Allan Quatermain in this Action/Adventure film. The film, set in 1899, opens with a tank rolling through London, loaded with storm troopers armed with automatic weapons. The premise of the film, based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill, the story takes a group of fictional heroes, led by Quatermain, to stop the villainous Fantom. The group includes: the Invisible Man, Dorian Gray, Dr. Jekyl, Captain Nemo, Mina Harker (a vampire). Oh, and some American named Tom Sawyer, who was added in to the film.

The League is assembled to stop the Fantom, who is set on starting a global war in order to promote and test his new line of armaments, and will stop at nothing to develop new weapons technologies, and push for the conflagration that will make him rich by selling extremely powerful (for 1899) weapons to the highest bidders.

This is a fun, comic book style, adventure, with some good scenes with Connery’s Quatermain and Agent Sawyer. The band of heroes has there own secrets to guard, and to make matters worse, find they must deal with a traitor in their midst.

This film is full of special effects, not the least of which is the Nautilus, which is a magnificent piece of work, although making it solar powered didn’t work for me (should have been nuclear powered). Strong acting from a great cast who worked well together, making this film worth seeing on the big screen.