Sean Connery’s Biggest Career Disaster With 17% Tomatometer Actually Looks Good Now

Summary:

• Amid the crisis that the cinematic giant Marvel is facing right now, many turn back to forgotten movies that became total disasters — and one particular movie starring a legendary actor is one of them.
• Sean Connery’s 2003 film was pretty successful in the box office, though it ended up with harsh criticism from professionals and viewers.
• More than twenty years later, the film is brought back up again by some people on X who compare it to Marvel’s high-grossing hits.

With all the backlash that superhero studios, especially Marvel, have recently got from the public and even from its fellow actors, some start reflecting on whether they were in fact unfair towards older movies that just hadn’t had the same delusive charm as the big superhero projects these days.

One of such old movies starring James Bond ’s legendary actor Sean Connery was crashed by everyone back in the day, but now seems to be restoring its reputation thanks to Marvel's recent failures.

Stephen Norrington’s superhero film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was released back in 2003 and showed very controversial results. Commercially, it was quite a win — the movie managed to garner almost $180 million in the box office with the initial budget of $78 million adding to the studio’s piggy bank $85 million of rental revenue and DVD sales.

Critically, everything was much worse — and even James Bond didn’t save anyone. The viewers gave the movie quite a disheartening score of 44% while the critics were even harsher and crashed it all entirely with a miserable 17% based on almost 200 reviews.

More than twenty years later, it seems like Sean Connery’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is not forgotten yet — but in a good way. Amid the while feud Marvel vs everyone else, people on X started bringing up Connery’s movie pointing out that they may be one of few people who think so, but the film isn’t actually that bad — at least compared to what superhero movies are like now.

Another user even noted that Sean Connery’s flop is better than anything that Marvel released since Avengers: Endgame that hit the cinemas back in 2019.

Given all the recognition that old and (maybe unfairly) forgotten movies are getting right now due to the industry’s partial crisis, Sean Connery’s failure may not be the last one on the list — and it may be a good chance to finally make it up to those films that drowned in the unjust criticism.