One of the worst TV to movie adaptations ever

I’ve never seen the TV show ‘The Avengers’ but I bet it’s better than this movie adaptation! ‘The Avengers’ 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, we’re shown ridiculously dumb action scenes of Steed fighting people! In fact, most of the action scenes in this movie are stupid

I’ve no idea but I think Uma Thurman is playing a good and a bad Emma Peel (just like Arnold Schwarzenegger in ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’), she and Steed are both playing agents who have to stop Sean Connery’s character Sir August De Wynter controlling the world with his high-tech weather machine?! What the hell is this? It’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, he’s much better in movies such as ‘Harry Potter’ and Uma Thurman is just rather over the top, she tried hard as Poison Ivy in ‘Batman & Robin’ 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 ‘The Avengers’ is a funny use of f*ck, it’s the one strong profanity used in the movie and why couldn’t it have been the only thing? I don’t care if it being the only thing would’ve made the movie five seconds, it probably would’ve been much better!


3/10