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The Avengers

1998

Jeremiah Chechik

Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, Sean Connery, Jim Broadbent ...

3.0

10,128

Action. Sci-Fi John Steed (Fiennes) has been called by The Ministry (Britain's ultra-top-secret agency) to investigate some very strange goings-on in Her Majesty's kingdom. The weather seems out of control, foul, deadly - even for England. Freak snowstorms, hail of Old Testament proportions, temperatures wildly fluctuating from blast furnace to arctic. Someone is out to control the weather, literally, and bring the country and the world to its knees. ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'The Avengers' is short but not short enough."
		Stephen Hunter The Washington Post	"The film is over-elaborate in its special effects and under-elaborate in its plotting (...) How much easier if "The Avengers" were bad on an epic scale (...) But it's not. It's badness is banal"
		Keith Phipps AV Club	"This big-screen version of the classic '60s TV spy show The Avengers can be added to the ignominious heap of updates, remakes, and adaptations that really didn't need to be made."
		Mike Clark USA Today	"This film's viewers must be avenged"

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