It took until July, but the summer of 2003’s first big-budget bomb finally arrived. This comic-book adaptation, about an assortment of legendary figures from adventure stories and Gothic novels who join forces to stop world war, is largely incoherent when it isn’t supremely silly. Presiding over all is Sean Connery as Allan Quatermain, looking slightly confused by the nonsensical plot and relentless special effects (you would have thought the Bond pictures would have acclimated him to that).
