Because wreaking evil, Sir August de Wynter who is scientist invents an extraordinary machine. Emma Peel teams up with John Steed to prevent him from destroying the entire world.
This big-screen version of the classic '60s TV spy show The Avengers can be added to the ignominious heap of updates, remakes, and adaptations that really didn't need to be made.
Neither elegant nor macho nor elegant-and-macho, Fiennes is terribly cast; Thurman at least provides the equivalent of a dressmaker's dummy on which to hang neo-mod fashions.
