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Avg. Critic Score: 30 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
13 Iffy for 13+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Robinson's script is alive to the material's literary roots, although there is a sense that the brakes have been applied so as not to push into territory perceived as too esoteric for American teenagers. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    It depicts the world of a century ago in a way that comments on the anxieties facing the world today, and it does so, at least for a while, with cleverness and a sense of fun. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    The movie is based on a 1999 series of comic books by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, but the original tone of deadpan historical audacity has been replaced by a kind of wax-museum literalness. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Has the sweat stains of wasted energy; it's dreary, yet frantic. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    These guys have dumbed down a comic book. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    The murkiest-looking movie since Ben Affleck's “Daredevil” and about as lacking in charm. Read full review

  • 30
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Nothing anchors the lighter-than-air story as it drifts away under the direction of Stephen Norrington ("Blade") into an FX stratosphere where wit, character and vigorous storytelling cease to matter. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Except for Connery, who is every inch the lion in winter, nothing here feels authentic. Read full review

  • 25
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Just when it seems about to become a real corker of an adventure movie, plunges into incomprehensible action, idiotic dialogue, inexplicable motivations, causes without effects, effects without causes, and general lunacy. What a mess. Read full review

  • 10
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    It's not brazenly bad or heroically bad or stridently bad. It's bad in all the old, dull ways of being bad: poor performances, absurd story, dreary special effects, witless dialogue and the excessive length of someone taking himself far too seriously. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+ Enough deaths here for a more restrictive rating.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie contains strong violence, a great deal of peril, and deaths enough for a more restrictive rating. Nameless characters are killed in every manner of way, from the traditional (flame-throwers, guns and explosions) to the supernatural, including the unwanted attentions of a vampire. There are some sexual references as well as sexuality between characters.
  • Families can talk about the strengths and weaknesses of each of these very different characters.
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: All the characters have special abilities and must work together to solve a problem, strong female and South Asian characters.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Peril and violence, many on-screen deaths (including those of primary characters). Peril.
  • sex false3 Sex: Sexual references and innuendo.
  • language false3 Language: Strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Social drinking and addiction to a body/mind-altering chemical concoction in the case of Dr. Jekyll.
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