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Summary: Good to Watch When You're Housecleaning
Review: This movie is not as bad as people say, but it's by no means any good either. It's the perfect video to watch when you're cleaning the house, because you can simply watch a scene here, a scene there, and not worry about missing scenes or missing out on the plot, because there is none. The sets are pretty, and Uma Thurman looks nice. There are some goofy situations. That's about it. If you want to watch a movie clean through, and be satisfied, this is not it.
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Summary: Should've been better, missing scenes sure don't help!
Review: I was a fan of the original TV series when the A&E network aired it back in the early 1990's. I waited with much anticapation when I started to see photos of the film. Then came the trailer. WOW! I couldn't wait to see the film. But to find out that the folks at Warner Bros. didn't let advanced sneak peek for critics to see this, you knew something was wrong. So there I was waiting to see this and found out how horrible the reviews were. When I finally saw the movie I thought scenes were missing. What does this mean? We were jipped! False advertising from the WB! The movie to my mind is OK, but all the missing scenes were in the darn trailer! There were really absurd moments (the Teddy Bears were the funniest to the audience at the theater). I thought the worst was the lack of explanation for Bad Emma. How did she come to be? The original Steed, Patrick Macnee reduced to being invisible? It'd been great to see the two Steeds side by side. Uma was OK but sure looked uncomfortable doing a British accent. She looked great in the leather outfit though! Ralph as Steed I thought was the best acting in film. Seemed a more silent, maybe dark Steed? Connery as the villain was OK but his objections should've been more realistic. The Alice character seemed to me the highlight of this film for something that worked. The movie did seem to be a combined mixture of a couple Avenger episodes. But to adapt it as the 1960's was wrong. They should've put it into the 1990's. The movie is OK and for that it ain't so bad. The missing scenes are needed. Mrs Peel, we're needed to find the complete film print edition!
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Summary: Just Plain Awful
Review: A Movie that just tries to hard to be clever & succeeds only in making the film worse and driving the viewer closer & closer to despair. Plot - Well not Much can be said for it since it really was awful, Did you care what happened? Did anyone come across well? No! The shame was that the potential was there but unforunately this mix of a typical Hollywood Plot & the sureallism that was attempted failed dismally. It's a pity though , I felt that Thurman & Fiennes made a good Steed & Mrs Peel, pity they had nothing to work with.
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Summary: I wonder when the "Hawaii Five-O" movie's coming out.
Review: Why does Hollywood waste its budget on movies based on 50's, 60's, or 70's TV shows? Can't anybody think for themselves anymore? Films like these give good actors bad reputations, and Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connery, and Uma Thurman are great actors. The three of them must've been trying to hang themselves after the theater release.
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Summary: Appallingly bad
Review: If you have to read a novelization to fill in the plot holes, it isn't worth doing.No matter who is to blame for this travesty, be it editor, director, screenwriters, the terribly lethargic performances from Thurman and Fiennes (I personally would lay the blame at the feet of the lot of them), it isn't worth the time or money. I'm not even much of a fan of the original, having only watched an episode or two if that, but this- this is a pathetic film. There is zero chemistry between the two stars, Sean Connery hams it up (and with dialogue like his, can you blame him?) and the plot, as has previously been stated, well.. saying it "has holes" is an understatement of the first order. An amateurish effort all around. Who would have throught that a film with Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery would be so... boring? I wouldn't even give it one star, but I'm being told that that isn't an option.
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Summary: Avengers better film than critics and fanatical fans admit
Review: Uma Thurman and Ralph Finnes gave better performances than fanatics of the show or critics concede. Yes,I loved the Diana Rigg/Patrick MacNee series. Tara, Mother, and the New Avengers were so dreadful you couldn't have paid me to watch it. The script was better than fans and crtitics realize. The director was obsessed with special effects- people attend films to see stories- not exploisions. Only terrorists are obsessed with blowing things up! Ralph Finnes was a different Steed. I found it refreshing that it he didn't leer over every female he met. He genuinely fell in love with the widowed Mrs. Peel. Read Julie Kaewert's well written novel, based on the script, and it answers the plot holes (botched editing) Uma Thurman as the lovely scientist/widow/agent was brilliant, sexy and complex. Only Diana Rig can be Diana Rig. I missed scenes cut from the film. Steed supposedly dodging death- only to have it turn out to be a test- the judges held up 6s (like Olympic skaters! rating) only to give him one 5.9 which he questioned. Very witty. Some loneytune cut that scene and dialog, thinking the audience only wants blow-em-up. Viewers know that they are intelligent- not stupid and want dialog and plot. Sadly, the film editors showed their contempt for plot, dialog, and the audience. The scene which conjures up "Date Rape" was a serious one (but sometimes the Avengers Tv show slipped in commentary) Mrs. Peel, bound,and then drugged by the megalomanical de Winter, franticaly tries to escape and is indirectly aided by Steed, tapping on the wall outside as he tries to gain entrance to the house and rescue her. It was truer to the spirit of the series than the wild-eyes, rather hysterical bashers admit: a beautiful, brainy, seductive woman the equal of a man forges a partnership based on mutual respect, liking. understanding. The hints that both of them felt more than friendship added the necessary romance. "Mother" was a bore but the writer paid homage to the Avengers: teddy bear assasins (Cathy Gale/Steed script) Invisible man (Steed/Emma), something nasty in the nursery (Steed line- Steed/Emma script), Steed and Emma fencing (Town of No Return and the witty dialog pays tribute to that Clemons story). Mother was a bore- as were the Tara/Steed/Mother episodes. Dame Diana Rig expressed disappointment that the movie was not well received. The film helped publicize the Avengers Tv series,, and Avengers books. It was charming. A full 2 hour film , the director's cut with dialog and complete plot would have been even more enjoyable and made more sense. I was hoping for a sequal with Thurman and Finnes but a better director a British one! some Avengers were terrible- the New Avengers- casting Linda thorson- young enough to be MacNee's daughter as a passive, adoring female made me buoycott the show. It was cancelled in America because it stank! Interestingly, the Avengers film plays on one of the cable stations almost every week so it is a much better film than the almost crazed people who shred it would have you believe. P.S. I enjoy the video but it would be much better with all the deleted scenes and dialog reinstated!
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Summary: Really the worst
Review: This is one of teh worst movie I have seen for many years. Bad story. Can you believe special agent use umbella to flight? Disappointing!
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Summary: Beautiful to look at, but a nauseating story
Review: This film is a real treat for the eyes, especially on a properly calibrated monitor. It is also a very satisfying audio experience in Dolby Digital 5.1. Unfortunately, the script does not even come close to the quality of the video transfer or the soundtrack. The first 20-30 minutes of the film are an amusing reminder of the charm of the old TV series, but things fall apart quickly after that. The perils introduced by the antagonist, Sean Connery, are unbelievable in the extreme. No amount of surreal interpretation can convince the viewer that they are anything but ridiculous. The gross incompetence of many characters is evident as both good and evil fail repeatedly to accomplish even the simplest of tasks to which they set themselves. Even if one is able to get past the silly devices and look only at the story, the narrative is mundane and predictable. If it were not for the fabulous transfer to DVD and the delicious Ms. Thurman, I don't believe I could have gotten any farther than one-third of the way through this mess. As it was, I only got to the (anti) climactic end battle because I couldn't find my remote.
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Summary: Watch the TV Show Instead
Review: Tiresome, absurd, and senseless plot, but the kiddies might enjoy it for the special effects and cartoon like action sequences. I wish I could say it was the worst movie I've seen in awhile, but the Mod Squad has that honor. A total disgrace to the original TV series.
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Summary: ALPAY SÝREK
Review: a film that has 125 reviews can not be bad. please show your mercy!
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