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British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joins forces with her to combat Sir August.
Release : | 1998 |
Rating : | 3.8 |
Studio : | Warner Bros. Pictures, Jerry Weintraub Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Art Direction, |
Cast : | Ralph Fiennes Uma Thurman Sean Connery Patrick Macnee Jim Broadbent |
Genre : | Adventure Action Comedy Thriller Science Fiction |
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Very Cool!!!
Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
The acting in this movie is really good.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Continuing my plan to watch every Sean Connery movie in order, I come to The Avengers (1998)Plot In A Paragraph: John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) two British agents, team up to stop Sir August de Wynter (Connery) from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.This is why Americans should not remake British TV shows. Whilst they may appreciate its success, they don't understand what actually made it good. This is Connery's worst movie since Sword Of The Valint, some fifteen years earlier. Quite a feat considering that Highlander 2 and King Arthur are in there. I watched this with my 11 year old son why questioned if it was a spoof movie, before stating "I can't watch this" before walking off. I turned it off shortly after to return to later in the day. Again I turned it off. Truthfully writing this review is taking some doing. It just fails on every level. The Movie was a bomb, only grossing $23 million of its $60 million budget at the domestic box office, to end 1998 as the 77th highest grossing movie of the year.
In London, the agent of the Ministry John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and Dr. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) are summoned by the Mother (Jim Broadbent), who shows a footage where the Prospero Project that controls the weather is damaged by Dr. Peel. They head to meet Sir August de Wynter (Sean Connery), who is a weather specialist, but soon they discover that he wants to rule the world, using his machine that controls the weather. I saw "The Avengers" in the 90's and did not like this movie. Today I have just seen it again on DVD and I found again a silly and boring movie that wastes cast and budget. It is hard to believe that Sean Connery accepted to work in this turkey. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Os Vingadores" ("The Avengers")
This is it: one of the most notorious critical failures in blockbuster history. This film promises a hip, new, action-packed rendition of the classic British spy show: a slick hybrid of explosive action, thrills, and quirky humor.The film definitely tries its best to be quirky, to the point where nearly every scene is weird and off-the-wall. Such eccentricities include a council of villains who dress up as giant teddy bears. There are at least a couple of scenes where old ladies whip out throwing knives or machine guns. The heroes are chased by robot bees at one point. One of the characters has an evil clone, with no explanation as to how or why. There are oodles of other odd things going on here, but the film pushes its quirkiness over the top with its script, in which every single line is a pun. Seriously, nobody ever talks normally in this film: every line is a funny remark, and it can get old really fast. The spaces in between these odd parts are filled up with fighting, explosions, chases, fighting, explosions, fighting, and more fighting! My personal experience with this film has always been mixed; it's something I always wanted to like, but never could. The standard tropes of outlandish spy thrillers are there, and the action can be okay to watch at times. Unfortunately, the storytelling makes this a far duller experience, because there is no real story here to tell. With a whopping 28 minutes cut from the film in post-production, the plot is reduced to a constant string of action scenes, one after another, with zero character development, and zero reasoning given for why things happen on screen. In the end, it's hard to really latch onto this film beyond the aesthetics.And the aesthetics get the job done. Photography isn't too bad. Editing is pretty stupid. Everybody in this film hams up their performances to match the quirky nature of the film. Ralph Fiennes bears a crud-eating grin the whole time, but still manages to channel enough charm and wit to make the most out of what he's given. Uma Thurman is pretty much reprising her role as Poison Ivy from B&R. Sean Connery doesn't seem to give a flying rip about anything, and in spite of that he seems to be the only one here taking his role seriously, even when he struts around in a kilt. I have no idea what Jim Broadbent and Eddie Izzard are doing here. Writing is horrible. This production uses okay-looking sets, props, and costumes. Special effects have not aged well. Joel McNealy's score is annoyingly repetitive and loud (which is a shame, because the movie's theme is not bad per se, and the CD soundtrack has been a favorite of mine since high school).There may have been potential in this film somewhere, but so much of the story has been carved out in post-production that it leaves only a threadbare semblance of a plot, and a ton of frivolous action and ridiculous scenes. It's an interesting oddity at times, and a glorious guilty pleasure in its own right, but overall, it is the ultimate example of how a film with all style and no substance can fall flat on its face.2/5 (Entertainment: Pretty Good | Story: Awful | Film: Marginal)
In my point of view, I thought it was funny when needed,action-packed and had really good scripts, but I don't really see how people don't like this movie. I have watched it, and I kind of enjoyed watching it. Now all I wish (and I hope no one will judge) they could make a second movie because in my opinion...I LOVED IT! After seeing all of the negative reviews, I just want to say,its not all that bad. I don't really see the problem with this movie, so I am just going to say, maybe people don't like it because it's a little different to what we usually watch, but it kind of fits in with the Inspecter Gadget and those 90's Action-Hero type movies. I'm not tying to get at the people who don't like this film, but I am simply asking that you give in to it a bit more.