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One of the worst TV to movie adaptations ever

Posted : 10 years, 2 months ago on 16 February 2014 12:49

Iā€™ve never seen the TV show ā€˜The Avengersā€™ but I bet itā€™s better than this movie adaptation! ā€˜The Avengersā€™ is one of the worst TV to movie adaptations ever! What were Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Sean Connery thinking? Where should I start?

After the opening credits, we see Ralph Fiennes as John Steed, meeting people in the street, weā€™re shown ridiculously dumb action scenes of Steed fighting people! In fact, most of the action scenes in this movie are stupid

Iā€™ve no idea but I think Uma Thurman is playing a good and a bad Emma Peel (just like Arnold Schwarzenegger in ā€˜Terminator 2: Judgment Dayā€™), she and Steed are both playing agents who have to stop Sean Conneryā€™s character Sir August De Wynter controlling the world with his high-tech weather machine?! What the hell is this? Itā€™s an odd TV to movie adaptation with poor acting, poor effects, ridiculous action scenes and confusing plot holes

Ralph Fiennes is appalling in the lead role, heā€™s much better in movies such as ā€˜Harry Potterā€™ and Uma Thurman is just rather over the top, she tried hard as Poison Ivy in ā€˜Batman & Robinā€™ but here, she tried waaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy too hard and gave a hammy performance, while Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman are an appalling screen couple, Sean Connery is even more hammy than Uma Thurman

One of the only good things about ā€˜The Avengersā€™ is a funny use of f*ck, itā€™s the one strong profanity used in the movie and why couldnā€™t it have been the only thing? I donā€™t care if it being the only thing wouldā€™ve made the movie five seconds, it probably wouldā€™ve been much better!


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A very bad movie

Posted : 13 years, 3 months ago on 12 January 2011 03:38

Obviovsly, this movie is not to be confused with the awesome super-hero feature delivered by Marvel, Ā in fact , it is arguably one of the worst movies ever made. Nowadays, if you have a successful TV-show, you can be pretty sure that, at some point, they will adapt it to the silver screen. Well, in this genre, this movie could be the worst ever made so far.Ā  At first, since there Ā was a nice cast involved (Ralph Fiennes, Sean Connery, Uma Thurman) Ā and since 'The Avengers' was a pretty good TV-show, Ā there was definitely some potential. Ā Well, eventually, it turned out to be a terrible mess. Seriously, pretty much nothing worked with this movie. Indeed, the story, the acting, the directing, everything was just way below average. For Jeremiah S. Chechik, after the already misguided and underwhelming ā€˜Diaboliqueā€™, this movie turned out to be even worse and it pretty much ruined his career for good (he still managed to direct some episodes of some various TV-shows afterwards but he would never direct again another full length feature). To conclude, this movie has a terrible reputation, it really deserves it and you should pretty much avoid it, except if you are a huge fan of very bad movies.



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