An interesting amalgam of adventure book heroes that not only defies the informed reader's ideas of these fiction novel characters but also plays with our knowledge of recent world history. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen features Captain Nemo, Tom Soyer, Dorian Grey, Hawley Griffin (an Invisible Man), Dr. Jekyll (and Mr. Hyde of course), Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker (Dracula's Jonathan Harker's wife) and King Solomon's Mines protagonist Allan Quatermain in a dizzying action packed save-the-world flick.

Technological wonders never seize to amaze the viewer in the League - from the Nautilus which was not anything so ultra tech in Jules Vernes' imagination to a 1915 British tank which makes its first appearance in 1899 in the streets of London breaking through the facade walls of the Bank of England driven by German military astonishingly looking like Nazi officers.