This film is odd, loud, unintentionally funny and quite awful.
– Richard Roeper,
Ebert & Roeper,
14 Jul 2003
rotten:
Even if, per Wilde, all art is quite useless, it need not be quite as useless as this.
– Ed Park,
Village Voice,
15 Jul 2003
rotten:
Despite Sean Connery and some impressive 19th century gloom, this big-screen translation of Alan Moore's culty comic-book series falls to earth with an incoherent splat.
– Charles Taylor,
Salon.com,
16 Jul 2003
rotten:
... the effects and sets are marvellously fantastical and there are one or two neat comical allusions to the heroes' literary roots. But where's the excitement, the thrills, the tension, the style?