rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1998
Directed by Jeremiah Chechik; produced by Jerry Weintraub; written by Don MacPherson
Starring Uma Thurman, Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connery, Patrick MacNee, Jim Broadbent, Eddie Izzard
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
It is hard to name a positive thing about 'The Avengers', a film of which I
am still wondering what it was actually about. I could talk about Uma
Thurman, but I would be talking about how she looks in a catsuit and not
about her performance as Mrs. Emma Peel. Maybe I could mention Ralph Fiennes
who plays a likable person for a change, although he is not that mentionable
as Mr. John Steed. Jim Broadbent as Mother is sort of a nice change but he
appears in ridiculous scenes that fortunately take not too much time of this
ridiculous film. The only possible positive thing I can talk about, besides
the end credits I welcomed very much, is a scene where Steed and Peel walk
on water. The scene itself is not that great, but I was wishing I could do
the same thing one day in my life.
What I'm saying is you should skip this film. It contains one of the worse
performances from Sean Connery, the story is a mess, continuity errors are
easier to find than events we might understand, the visual effects are not
better than average, sometimes even bad, nice actors like Thurman and
Fiennes have a very hard time with the material, the funny moments are not
funny. I probably could go on, but you get the point. I have no idea what
the filmmakers were thinking and I find it very hard to believe there is an
audience for a film like this. I would almost say 'Batman & Robin' is better
but I guess that would be a lie. Or maybe not, hard choice.