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The Avengers
1998
In the AVENGERS feature film, the characters of the cult 1960s television show are back at it again. The suave John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and the sultry Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) team up to thwart the nefarious plans of Sir August de Wynter (Sean Connery), who is out to control the world's weather. Watch for Patrick Macnee, who .. Read more
| Starring | Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes, Patrick Macnee |
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| Director | Jeremiah S. Chechik |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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The Avengers
In the AVENGERS feature film, the characters of the cult 1960s television show are back at it again. The suave John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and the sultry Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) team up to thwart the nefarious plans of Sir August de Wynter (Sean Connery), who is out to control the world's weather. Watch for Patrick Macnee, who played the original Steed in the TV series, as Invisible Jones.
| Starring | Sean Connery, Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes, Patrick Macnee |
|---|---|
| Director | Jeremiah S. Chechik |
| Studio | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 26 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, English |
| Released | DVD: 05 Apr 1999 Production year: 1998 |
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The cult 1960s TV series gets royally shafted by Hollywood in this stunningly designed blockbuster that's stunningly awful in every other department. Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman couldn't be more miscast as John Steed and Emma Peel, here trying to stop villainous Sir August De Wynter (Sean Connery playing himself again) holding the world's weather to ransom and freezing London to an arctic standstill. Ruthlessly edited before release and packed with arch one-liners, bad puns and vulgar double entendres, this is misguided and misbegotten to a simply staggering degree, while Jeremiah Chechik's mannered direction screeches the action to an unexciting halt at every flat turn. Terrible special effects and zero chemistry between Fiennes and Thurman make this notorious disaster a total waste of everyone's time and energy.
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Lousy as it is, Warner Bros' big budget version of the cult '60s TV series isn't any worse than, say, the last two... read more on Time Out
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
I was pleasantly surprised!
To be honest, I rented this film more out of curiosity to see how bad this version was going to be in comparison to the original TV series and not expecting ... more
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
I was pleasantly surprised!
To be honest, I rented this film more out of curiosity to see how bad this version was going to be in comparison to the original TV series and not expecting ... more
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In the AVENGERS feature film, the characters of the cult 1960s television show are back at it again. The suave John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and the sultry Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) team up to thwart the ... -