The Avengers . Tucson Weekly . 08-24-98

The Avengers

DIRECTED BY: Jeremiah S. Chechik

REVIEWED: 08-24-98

I was only 7 years old the last time I saw The Avengers TV series, but I don't remember it sucking in quite this fashion. The most striking thing about this super-spy story is that there's nothing striking about it--it has absolutely no salient characteristics. From the initial meeting of secret agents John Steed (Ralph Fiennes) and Mrs. Emma Peel (Uma Thurman, in a double role), through their encounters with super-villian Sean Connery, through Connery's attempts to control the world by controlling the weather, up to the final confrontation, every moment has exactly the same sense of force. It's like listening to a metronome while watching special effects: There's no more excitement or suspense in the explosions than in the expository dialogue. I can't say whether this movie was bad or good; it was so consistently the same, and so full of distracting if unorginal visuals, and slack but not painful dialogue, that seeing it was like having no experience whatsoever. After its mercifully brief 90 minutes were over, I almost completely forgot what it was about.

--DiGiovanna

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