10 Actors Who Didn't Realise They Were In Crap Films
8. Sean Connery - The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen will go down in history as the film that broke James Bond. Although the given reason for Sean Connerys retirement from acting was down to general disillusionment with the whole movie industry, his final screen role, Allan Quatermain in the film obnoxiously shortened to LXG, no doubt played a large part in it. A confused adaptation of Alan Moores graphic novel, the film should have been a Victorian Avengers, bringing together a bunch of literary heroes in a fantastical twist on the period drama. What we got was a messy film that commits that worst of cinematic crimes; it was boring. To be fair to Connery he didnt really know what he was letting himself in for. In the previous few years hed turned down the iconic roles of Morpheus in The Matrix and Gandalf in The Lord Of The Rings (twice) because he didnt understand the material, so when a third film he didnt understand came along he jumped on it. The sheer confusion of what made one bizarre film a hit and another a derided dud was probably the last straw in the great Scots career.
