Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery

British agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes), teamed with the beautiful Dr. Emma Peel, has orders from "Mother" to investigate dramatic changes in the earth's climate. The trail quickly leads them to ar...( read more  read more... )ch-villain, and ex-agent, Sir August de Wynter (Sean Connery) and a plot to rule the world with his weather machine. Based on a 1960s TV series.

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PG-13, 90 min.

Directed by: Jeremiah S. Chechik

Release Date: August 14, 1998

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DVD Release Date: July 3, 2001

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  • September 20, 2008
    How could this have turned out so boring?
  • June 27, 2008
    Terrible simply terrible. I can't believe that this is actually as bad as everyone told me.

    Wow...
  • June 27, 2008
    The next time spend the money in a good script, instead of hiring interior decorators and fashion desginers for your film
  • April 21, 2008
    A great cast put together for (yet another) remake that somewhere along the line falls flat. It took a drubbing from critics and fans, but whatever caused this film to fail, it sure as hell wasn't the acting. Nothing wrong there, although I have to say Uma isn't near the beauty D...( read more)iana Rigg was in that role. Damn she was hot.
  • June 19, 2007
    The Avengers is a classy mind-bending British spy adventure. It's campy and a whole lot of fun! The production design and witty script was superb. I loved the awesome opening titles and soundtrack with great score and pop tunes. Uma Thurman is sexy and charming as Emma Peel. Ralp...( read more)h Fiennes made a classy and calm-no-matter-what John Steed. Sean Connery was a hostile and demented weather-controlling scientist Sir August de Wynter. Eddie Izzard plays a naughty glam-clad baddie. There are some great scenes and concepts: big radio-controlled killer wasps, a dangerous village training ground, them walking across the water in bubbles, a secret boardroom meeting with teddy bear costumes, a duplicate Emma Peel, an endless loop of mansion hallways, Emma and Steed's impromptu fencing, a tea tap on the car dash, a skirmish on high-wires in a lightning storm chamber, an old lady taking out baddies with a machine gun, a mini tornado inside a glass dome, a hot air balloon escape, Emma Peel strutting boldly into a private mens' club, a guy boss code-named Mother and a lady boss code-named Father, a sunny day instantly becoming a blizzard, multiple tornadoes in London, and more! It's packed with great things - and all in 89 minutes, meaning brisk pacing. I've watched it lots of times.
  • November 8, 2009
    I feel like half the movie is still sitting on a shelf somewhere.
  • October 2, 2009
    Scientist & Ministry agent Mrs. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman) meets the Ministry agent John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) for the first time to follow a lead to Weather Wonderland. Emma suffers from a mental disease when John & Emma go off to visit an old ally of The Ministry named Sir Augu...( read more)st De Wynter (Sean Connery) is a villain.
  • September 13, 2009
    entretiene en una maņana q no haya nada
  • August 6, 2009
    So dumb I overlooked Eddie Izzard, whom I adore.
  • August 4, 2009
    God this movie was dumb. I was losing interest from the very beginning but it completely lost me when I had to see the teddy bear suit meeting with Sean.

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  • toxie
    June 16, 2007
    A brilliant film that is sadly underrated.

    http://www.theavengers-movie.com
  • rayman0071
    March 5, 2007
    This was the movie that brought down Ralph Finnes' brilliant career. You can blame that on Uma Thurman. This was the worst concept ever based on the hit British TV 1960's spy show. Uma Thurman dead-on impression of Diana Rigg's character of Emma Peel is an insult. And what the hell is Sean Connery playing a sadistic villain? WTF???
    Sean Connery is James Bond in a bad role and even pathetic in a bad movie! One of the worst films that ever came out of the late 1990's.

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