The Avengers (1998 movie)

The Avengers is a 1998 American action and spy movie. It comes from the British television series of the same name.

Plot
John Steed, the agent of the Ministry, completes a training course. Dr. Emma Peel gets a phone call telling her to go to a gentlemen's club. She meets Steed for the first time there. The two head off to the Ministry to meet Mother. Mother tells them the Prospero project-a try to change the weather-was sabotaged by Emma Peel. Dr. Peel says she's innocent. She is then sent to work with Steed to find the real suspect.

Steed and Emma follow a lead to the Wonderland Weather. It's a business that creates heat or other weather with a special machine. Steed and Emma find two dead men in teddy bear suits. Members of a secret organization led by Sir August de Wynter wear teddy bear suits to disguise their identities. However, one of them looks like another Emma Peel. Steed arrives in time to save the real Emma Peel.

Steed and Emma go off and visit de Wynter at his mansion. But then, they are attacked by mechanical bees. Alice, a Ministry agent, helps Steed and Emma flee. However, de Wynter catches Emma as she tries to escape though finds herself trapped.

It is later revealed that the other Emma Peel is a clone. Father and the Peel clone catch the real Emma Peel. They're angrily met by Mother. Mother is then incapacitated.

Father and Peel's clone take the real Emma to a hot air balloon. Father and Peel's clone die when the balloon crashes and explodes. Invisible Jones learns de Wynter is using the Prospero instruments on a secret island. Steed and Emma arrive at the island to stop him.

Cast
 Ralph Fiennes as John Steed, a British Ministry agent
 Uma Thurman as Emma Peel, Scientist, Ministry agent
 Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter, a weather scientist and a terrorist 
 Jim Broadbent as Mother, Director of the Ministry
 Fiona Shaw as Father, Deputy Director of the Ministry, ally of Sir August
 Eddie Izzard as Bailey, Sir August's henchman
 Eileen Atkins as Alice, a Ministry Agent
 Carmen Ejogo as Brenda, a Ministry Agent, Mother's aide
 John Wood as Trubshaw, Steed's tailor
 Keeley Hawes as Tamara, Agent of Sir August
 Patrick Macnee (voice) as Invisible Jones, a Ministry Agent
  Lorraine McBride as Nun

Critical response
The Avengers was hated by many movie critics. The Rotten Tomatoes gave this movie a 5% rating, meaning "rotten". The Metacritic rated the movie at 12/100. That rating meant "overwhelming dislike".

The movie won two awards: one Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Remake or Sequel, and a Stinkers Bad Movie Award for Worst Resurrection of a TV show.

Awards
 Award Category Nominee ResultRazzie AwardWorst PictureJerry WeintraubWorst DirectorJeremiah S. ChechikWorst ScreenplayDon MacphersonWorst ActorRalph FiennesWorst Screen CoupleUma ThurmanWorst ActressWorst Supporting ActorSean ConneryWorst Original SongStormWorst Remake or SequelJerry WeintraubStinkers Bad Movie AwardsWorst PictureWorst DirectorJeremiah S. ChechikWorst ActorRalph FiennesWorst On-Screen CoupleUma ThurmanWorst ActressMost Annoying Fake AccentWorst Supporting ActorSean ConneryWorst Resurrection of a TV ShowJerry Weintraub

References

Category:1998 action movies
Category:1998 thriller movies
Category:1990s action thriller movies
Category:1990s spy movies
Category:American action thriller movies
Category:American spy movies