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The Avengers

  • 19981998
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 29m
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3.8/10
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Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes, and Uma Thurman in The Avengers (1998)
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Two British Agents team up to stop Sir August de Wynter from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.Two British Agents team up to stop Sir August de Wynter from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.Two British Agents team up to stop Sir August de Wynter from destroying the world with a weather-changing machine.
IMDb RATING
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    • Jeremiah S. Chechik
    • Sydney Newman(television series The Avengers)
    • Don MacPherson
  • Stars
    • Ralph Fiennes
    • Uma Thurman
    • Sean Connery
    • Jeremiah S. Chechik
    • Sydney Newman(television series The Avengers)
    • Don MacPherson
  • Stars
    • Ralph Fiennes
    • Uma Thurman
    • Sean Connery
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    • 481User reviews
    • 119Critic reviews
    • 12Metascore
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    Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman in The Avengers (1998)
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    Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes, and Uma Thurman in The Avengers (1998)
    Sean Connery, Ralph Fiennes, and Uma Thurman in The Avengers (1998)
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    Ralph Fiennes
    Ralph Fiennes
    • John Steed
    Uma Thurman
    Uma Thurman
    • Dr. Emma Peel
    Sean Connery
    Sean Connery
    • Sir August de Wynter
    Patrick Macnee
    Patrick Macnee
    • Invisible Jones
    • (voice)
    Jim Broadbent
    Jim Broadbent
    • Mother
    Fiona Shaw
    Fiona Shaw
    • Father
    Eddie Izzard
    Eddie Izzard
    • Bailey
    Eileen Atkins
    Eileen Atkins
    • Alice
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    John Wood
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    Keeley Hawes
    • Tamara
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    Shaun Ryder
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    Nicholas Woodeson
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    Michael Godley
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    Richard Lumsden
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    Nadim Sawalha
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    • Trivia
      Ralph Fiennes said of this movie, "I think it's a badge of honor to have a real flop on your resumé."
    • Goofs
      As in so many films, the chess board is round the wrong way.
    • Quotes

      Alice: [holding a submachine gun, to Steed and Emma Peel] Would you please be so kind as to hit the ground, if it's not too much trouble?

      [Fires submachine gun, kills the bad guy]

      Alice: I hope he was a baddie.

    • Alternate versions
      UK DVD Z1 15873 does not feature Eddie Izzard opening his knife in his final fight - footage cut but present in other versions. The shot of the knife being opened is replaced by a reaction shot of Emma that is not featured in versions that have the knife opening. As a result the different versions do not have a different running time as the action goes back perfectly in sync after this moment.
    • Connections
      Featured in HBO First Look: The Avengers (1998)
    • Soundtracks
      Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head
      Written by Burt Bacharach, Hal David

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    3/10
    A wasted opportunity
    Is The Avengers a good film? No. Is it the worst film ever made? No. I first saw the movie at the cinema upon its release and, at that time, I did think that it was one of the worst films I'd seen up to that point. I've watched it 2 or 3 times since then and my opinion of it has improved, well, very slightly at any rate. Apart from a pervading incoherence, I think the film's major problem is its slightness; it's only an hour and a half long and the plot is very simplistic to say the least. It's not hard to imagine audiences feeling a bit short-changed when it first came out, especially as the film was a big-budget, would-be summer blockbuster. Another big problem is the casting of Uma Thurman as Emma Peel. Thurman has shown herself to be a fine actress in movies such as Pulp Fiction but she just looks out of her depth here (I never believed in her as a top-level scientist for a second) and her English accent doesn't sound natural. Nicole Kidman, to whom the role was first offered, would surely have been better, in particular, she's displayed flawless English accents in films such as The Others and The Hours. An English actress I also think would have made a great Peel is Joely Richardson but the studio would probably have vetoed such a choice on the grounds of her not being a big enough name. Ralph Fiennes was a real enigma in this film - there was nothing wrong in principle in casting him as Steed but he looks ill at ease throughout the movie as if he'd rather be elsewhere. I can only assume he'd already twigged that the film was going to be a turkey. What's worse, Fiennes and Thurman have absolutely no chemistry between them, which wastes the snappy dialogue they have with each other throughout the film. The supporting cast fare a bit better with seasoned pros such as Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent and Fiona Shaw making the most of their underdeveloped parts. The retro-chic world of the original TV series is nicely recreated and there's no shortage of nice cars, costumes and locations but what's good about the film is easily drowned out by what's bad; The Avengers is ultimately a shallow, rushed and messy affair, severely hampered by the performances of its two leads. Handled properly, the film could have been a wonderful success for all concerned, the first chapter of an entertaining and lucrative franchise, stretching well beyond the 1990s; instead it's one of the most embarrassing flops of that decade. The original cut of the film was apparently two and a half hours long but, following negative reactions from audiences at test screenings, the studio hacked the film down to its present one and a half hour length. This doesn't actually come as much of a surprise as there is a lack of proper narrative flow to the film suggestive of chunks of explanatory scenes having been cut out. Just one example: towards the end of the film, just before they enter Sir August's underwater lair, Steed and Peel enter a phone box and Peel says "how now brown cow?" down the phone. The phrase seems to be a password to enter the premises but how does Peel know it? There's been talk here and there of the possibility of Warners releasing a director's cut or special edition DVD, restoring the original two and a half hour version. I think this would be a good idea and I'd definitely be interested in watching the full version of the film. It's highly unlikely to be any kind of masterpiece but it's difficult to imagine that it wouldn't improve upon the movie as it stands. At the very least you'd have to assume that it would be more coherent. Sadly I don't think the chances of Warners going down this line are high; I have the feeling that this is a movie the studio would rather forget about than draw attention to.
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    • May 31, 2006

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    • Release date
      • August 14, 1998 (United States)
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Emma Peel: mrspeel.com (Warner Bros.)
      • John Steed: mrsteed.com (Warner Bros.)
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire, England, UK
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Jerry Weintraub Productions
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    • 1 hour 29 minutes
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