Quel che lascia sgomenti è che qualcuno abbia prodotto una cosa del genere.
In breve: emulo miserrimo del già non ricchissimo La leggenda degli uomini straordinari, l'esimio Van Helsing è in missione per conto di Dio (o facente funzioni) e se ne va a spasso per l'Europa a fracassare teste illustri, quale quella del Dottor Jekyll. Troverà pane per i suoi denti nella spensierata combriccola formata da Dracula, il mostro di Frankenstein, i lupi mannari e degli gnometti malvagi. E giurerei di aver visto anche Britney Spears, tra la folla...
Al di là di una trama imbarazzante (in sintonia con regia e dialoghi), non ci si può non stupire per la più inquietante serie di overacting che il cinema ricordi, a cominciare dal buon Hugh Jackman impegnato in una trafila di "buona la prima che ce ne andiamo tutti a casa in fretta". A tratti pare di stare in un film di ninjà.
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Il tutto per 131 devastanti minuti, in cui si salvano giusto per motivi estetici Kate Beckinsale (a cui simili film devono piacere davvero tanto) ed un po' di vampiresse assortite.
Voto: 1. Pietoso.
Trashometro® 6/10:
Tags: horror, avventura, thriller, fantasy, azione, dracula, vampiro, non morto, lupo mannaro, licantropo, missione, dio, fede, gnomi cattivi, Jekyll, Hyde, Roma, Transilvania, Parigi, Igor, Frankenstein, mostro di Frankenstein, dannazione, maledizione, fuga, antidoto, frate, overacting, trash.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The (2003)
La leggenda degli uomini straordinari
Regista: Stephen Norrington
Scrittore: Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill
Genere: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Action
Valutazione: 5.5/10 (44382 voti)
Durata: 110 min
Paese: USA, Germany, Czech Republic, UK
Lingua: English, German, Italian
Cast:
- Sean Connery .... Allan Quatermain
- Naseeruddin Shah .... Captain Nemo
- Peta Wilson .... Mina Harker
- Tony Curran .... Rodney Skinner (The Invisible Man)
- Stuart Townsend .... Dorian Gray
- Shane West .... Tom Sawyer
- Jason Flemyng .... Dr. Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde
- Richard Roxburgh .... M
- Max Ryan .... Dante
- Tom Goodman-Hill .... Sanderson Reed
Trama:
Renowned adventurer Allan Quatermain leads a team of extraordinary figures with legendary powers to battle the technological terror of a madman known as "The Fantom." This "League" comprises seafarer/inventor Captain Nemo, vampiress Mina Harker, an invisible man named Rodney Skinner, American secret service agent Tom Sawyer, the ageless and invincible Dorian Gray, and the dangerous split personality of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde.
Trivia random: While capturing Hyde in Paris, Quartermain says Hyde has been terrorizing the Rue Morgue for some time. With his physical distortions, Hyde may well have been the roof-running "ourang-utan" (sic) from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", another famous 19th-century literary work. Indeed, both Sawyer and Quatermain refer to Hyde as a "big monkey" in the scene.
Citazione random: Captain Nemo: We have trouble.<br />Mr. Hyde: Trouble? I call it sport.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Beckinsale, Kate
Nome di battesimo: Beckinsale, Kathryn Bailey
Data di nascita: 26 July 1973
Altezza: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Coniuge: Len Wiseman::(9 May 2004 - present)
Ultimi lavori:
- Everybody's Fine (2009) .... Amy [attrice]
- Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) .... Selene [attrice]
- Whiteout (2009) .... Carrie Stetko [attrice]
- Nothing But the Truth (2008) .... Rachel Armstrong [attrice]
- Winged Creatures (2008) .... Carla Davenport [attrice]
- Snow Angels (2007/I) .... Annie Marchand [attrice]
- Vacancy (2007) .... Amy Fox [attrice]
- Click (2006/I) .... Donna Newman [attrice]
- Underworld: Evolution (2006) .... Selene [attrice]
- The Aviator (2004) .... Ava Gardner [attrice]
Biografia:
Kate Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in England, and has resided in London for most of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions. Her father was Richard Beckinsale, born in Nottingham, England. He starred in a number of popular British television comedies during the 1970s, most notably the series "Rising Damp" (1974), "Porridge" (1974) and "The Lovers" (1970). He passed away tragically early in 1979 at the age of 31. Kate attended the private school Godolphin and Latymer School in London for her grade and primary school education. In her teens she twice won the British bookseller W.H. Smith Young Writers' competition - once for three short stories and once for three poems. After a tumultuous adolescence (a bout of anorexia - cured - and a smoking habit which continues to this day), she gradually took up the profession of acting. Her major acting debut came in a TV film about World War II called One Against the Wind (1991) (TV), filmed in Luxembourg during the summer of 1991. It first aired on American television that December. Kate began attending Oxford University's New College in the fall of 1991, majoring in French and Russian literature. She had already decided that she wanted to act, but to broaden her horizons she chose university over drama school. While in her first year at Oxford, Kate received her big break in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1993). Kate worked in three other films while attending Oxford, beginning with a part in the medieval historical drama Prince of Jutland (1994), cast as Ethel. The film was shot during the spring of 1993 on location in Denmark, and she filmed her supporting part during New College's Easter break. Later in the summer of that year she played the lead in the contemporary mystery drama Uncovered (1994). Before she went back to school, her third year at university was spent at Oxford's study-abroad program in Paris, France, immersing herself in the French language, Parisian culture and French cigarettes. A year away from the academic community and living on her own in the French capital caused her to re-evaluate the direction of her life. She faced a choice: continue with school or concentrate on her flourishing acting career. After much thought, she chose the acting career. In the spring of 1994 Kate left Oxford, after finishing three years of study. Kate appeared in the BBC/Thames Television satire Cold Comfort Farm (1995) (TV), filmed in London and East Sussex during late summer 1994 and which opened to spectacular reviews in the United States, grossing over $5 million during its American run. It was re-released to U.K. theaters in the spring of 1997. Acting on the stage consumed the first part of 1995; she toured in England with the Thelma Holts Theatre Company production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull". After turning down several mediocre scripts "and going nearly berserk with boredom", she waited seven months before another interesting role was offered to her. Her big movie of 1995 was the romance/horror movie Haunted (1995), starring opposite Aidan Quinn and John Gielgud, and filmed in West Sussex. In this film she wanted to play "an object of desire", unlike her past performances where her characters were much less the siren and more the worldly innocent. Kate's first film project of 1996 was the British ITV production of Jane Austen's novel Emma (1996) (TV). Her last film of 1996 was the comedy Shooting Fish (1997), filmed at Shepperton Studios in London during early fall. She played the part of Georgie, an altruistic con artist. She had a daughter, Lily, in 1999 with actor Michael Sheen.
Trivia random: Richard Beckinsale's maternal grandfather - her great-grandfather - was Burmese.
Citazione random: "I look at how Keira Knightley is coiffed when she attends events. I remember going to Cannes with Much Ado About Nothing (1993) when I was 18, and nobody told me, 'Oh, here's a make-up artist or, 'This person wants to dress you, what clothes are you wearing?' It just wasn't like that when I started. Nobody even told me I could bring a friend! I just sort of showed up in a very expensive pair of trousers I bought in Harvey Nichols, and something I bought in the Sock Shop at the airport. But Keira Knightley has like full hair and make- up and a proper outfit and I think, 'Wow, she's not going to have the before photos I had to endure!' She's really lucky".
Salario massimo: $200,000, per Pearl Harbor (2001)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Jackman, Hugh
Nome di battesimo: Jackman, Hugh Michael
Data di nascita: 12 October 1968
Altezza: 6' 2½" (1.89 m)
Coniuge: Deborra-Lee Furness::(11 April 1996 - present) 2 children
Ultimi lavori:
- Drive (2012) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Guardians of Ga'Hoole (2010) .... (voice) (rumored) [attore]
- Unbound Captives (2010) .... Tom [attore]
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) .... (producer) [produttore]
- "An Aussie Goes Bolly" (2008) .... (producer) (unknown episodes) [produttore]
- Australia (2008) .... Drover [attore]
- Deception (2008/I) .... (producer) [produttore]
- Uncle Jonny (2008) .... Uncle Russell [attore]
- "The Directors' Series" (2007) .... (executive producer) [produttore]
- "An Aussie Goes Barmy" (2006) .... (executive producer) (unknown episodes) [produttore]
Biografia:
Born in Sydney of English parentage, and the youngest of five children, Jackman has a communications degree with a journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney. After graduating, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, immediately after which he was offered a starring role in the ABC-TV prison drama "Correlli" (1995), opposite his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Several TV guest roles followed, as an actor and variety compere. An accomplished singer, Jackman has starred as Gaston in the Australian production of "Beauty and the Beast." He appeared as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of "Sunset Boulevard." In 1998, he was cast as Curly in the Royal National Theatre's production of Trevor Nunn's Oklahoma. Jackman has made two feature films, the second of which, Erskineville Kings (1999), garnered him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actor in 1999. Recently, he won the part of Logan/Wolverine in the Bryan Singer- directed comic-book movie X-Men (2000). In his spare time, Jackman plays piano, golf, and guitar, and likes to windsurf.
Trivia random: Expressed great fondness for the comic book character Superman. Ironically, Superman is owned by DC Comics, the rival company of Marvel Comics, which owns X-Men and Wolverine.
Citazione random: [on his 8-year-old adopted son Oscar] He said to me the other day, 'Dad, two o'clock, hot chick.' He walks over, and I heard him say, 'Hey, my dad's Wolverine.' That's his opening line! He brings them over and asks, 'Dad, can we have a few autographs for the girls?' I'm like, 'Am I pimping for my kids?'
Salario massimo: $20,000,000, per X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Van Helsing (2004)
Regista: Stephen Sommers
Scrittore: Stephen Sommers
Genere: Action, Adventure, Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Action
Valutazione: 5.5/10 (60206 voti)
Durata: 131 min
Paese: USA, Czech Republic
Lingua: English, Latin
Cast:
- Hugh Jackman .... Van Helsing
- Kate Beckinsale .... Anna Valerious
- Richard Roxburgh .... Count Vladislaus Dracula
- David Wenham .... Carl
- Shuler Hensley .... Frankenstein's Monster
- Elena Anaya .... Aleera
- Will Kemp .... Velkan
- Kevin J. O'Connor .... Igor
- Alun Armstrong .... Cardinal Jinette
- Silvia Colloca .... Verona
Trama:
Van Helsing is in the world to rid all evil, even if not everyone agrees with him. The Vatican send the monster hunter and his ally, Carl to Transylvania. They have been sent to this land to stop the powerful Count Dracula. Whilst, here they join forces with a Gypsy Princess called Anna Valerious, who is determined to end an ancient curse on her family, by destroying the vampire. They just don't know how!
Trivia random: Kate Beckinsale was the last to be cast.
Citazione random: Carl: Viscous material, what did I tell you!
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
1 commento:
Ottima recensione, concordo su ogni parola. E' incredibile come abbiano potuto fare un mockbuster hollywoodiano a sua volta de La leggenda degli uomini straordinari
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