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Sorry dears, but this film does *not* live up to its press.
If I could have voted it 0 stars, I would. I'd rather see one of the "Troma" films than see this again. Heck, I'd rather see a whole *festival* of bad films before seeing this again.
No redeeming features whatsoever.
If I could have voted it 0 stars, I would. I'd rather see one of the "Troma" films than see this again. Heck, I'd rather see a whole *festival* of bad films before seeing this again.
No redeeming features whatsoever.
Just like the freeway interchange that is one of the focal points, this movie is full of ideas and plot lines going everywhere, but nobody gets off.
There are at least 4 different and potentially fascinating movies here, unfortunately, we only get to see portions of each of them. Worth seeing as inspiration for characters, and some interesting cinematography, but otherwise, it's a loser.
There are at least 4 different and potentially fascinating movies here, unfortunately, we only get to see portions of each of them. Worth seeing as inspiration for characters, and some interesting cinematography, but otherwise, it's a loser.
Uma Thurman's catsuits aside, "The Avengers" is one of the flattest movies to come down the pike in a long time.
The failing Sean Connery isn't really the villain in this movie, the true villains are a director who thought he could "improve" on the original, and an editor who really shouldn't have been let out of film school.
Fiennes and Thurman do an adquate job with what they were given, which wasn't much, and then the editor took half of that away.
Connery got one half-choked off rant, (all of which you see in the trailer) and then hid in the leftover set for the power supply from the floating city in "The Empire Strikes Out" (Er -- "Back"). A pathetic effort from a formerly stellar actor.
Eileen Atkins was rather fun as Alice, Steed's minder, and the guest appearance by Patrick Macnee was somewhat amusing.
As for the writing, well.... I think (despite the credits) they actually gave the job to a couple of public school lads who rather thought that they were being clever.
Overall, not worth the money spent to make it, nor the $6 I paid to see it. One star, mostly for some rather nice, if somewhat generic, cinematography.
The failing Sean Connery isn't really the villain in this movie, the true villains are a director who thought he could "improve" on the original, and an editor who really shouldn't have been let out of film school.
Fiennes and Thurman do an adquate job with what they were given, which wasn't much, and then the editor took half of that away.
Connery got one half-choked off rant, (all of which you see in the trailer) and then hid in the leftover set for the power supply from the floating city in "The Empire Strikes Out" (Er -- "Back"). A pathetic effort from a formerly stellar actor.
Eileen Atkins was rather fun as Alice, Steed's minder, and the guest appearance by Patrick Macnee was somewhat amusing.
As for the writing, well.... I think (despite the credits) they actually gave the job to a couple of public school lads who rather thought that they were being clever.
Overall, not worth the money spent to make it, nor the $6 I paid to see it. One star, mostly for some rather nice, if somewhat generic, cinematography.