Nemo volunteers his submarine, the Nautilus, which is about 10 stories high and as long as an aircraft carrier, and which we soon see cruising the canals of Venice. Impossible to get there in time, Quartermain says, apparently in ignorance of railroads. When is the meeting? In three days, M says. M informs them that the leaders of Europe are going to meet in Venice and that the mysterious villains will blow up the city to start a world war. Hyde looks uncannily like the WWE version of Fat Bastard. Jekyll, but here Hyde expands into a creature scarcely smaller than the Hulk, and gets his pants from the same tailor, since they expand right along with him while his shirt is torn to shreds. We are not too surprised to discover that Mina Harker is an immortal vampire, since she had those puncture wounds in her throat the last time we saw her, but I wonder if Oscar Wilde knew that Dorian Gray was also immortal and cannot die (or be killed!) as long as he doesn't see his portrait at one point, an enemy operative perforates him with bullets and he comes up smiling. These team members have skills undreamed of by the authors who created them. Henry Jekyll ( Jason Flemyng), whose alter ego is Mr. Quartermain and friends are able to dispatch them with some head-butting, a few rights to the jaw and skewering on an animal horn, and then he goes to London to attend a meeting called by a spy master named-well, he's named M, of course.Īlso assembled by M are such fabled figures as Captain Nemo ( Naseeruddin Shah), who has retired from piracy Mina Harker ( Peta Wilson), who was involved in that messy Dracula business Rodney Skinner ( Tony Curran), who is the Invisible Man Dorian Gray ( Stuart Townsend), who, Quartermain observes, seems to be missing a picture Tom Sawyer ( Shane West), who works as an agent for the U.S.
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