I agree that Fiennes did well in the role. The film's failings are the result of the people making it emphasizing the surreal aspects the television show had in the later seasons rather than more traditional spy themes of the earlier seasons.
It's remarkable how many people have appeared in both The Avengers and Bond - Patrick MacNee, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Joanna Lumley, Sean Connery and Ralph Fiennes!
As an Avengers fan , I was very eager to watch this movie back in 98 and was bitterly disappointed. What came to mind was it was 30 years too late .The movie should have been made in the 60s with our Pat, Honor and Di now reunited on the great stage in the heavens. We also shouldn't foget Linda still with us.
Although I definitely agree with you but still it was still good having this movie and series come out I just hate that the Hollywood that we got they co-opted the name
Watch the original show starting with The Town of No Return. It's the first episode with Diana Rigg Season 4 Episode 1. There's only one John Steed and Emma Peel. The movie was a disaster just like The Wild Wild West with Will Smith. Watch the original Wild Wild West with Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. They should stop trying to remake classics. Nothing but box office disasters. 😮
The opening sequence here is probably my favourite bit of this film, though there are several others! And that was the thing with this film for me - lots of memorable set-pieces and ideas, some inspired casting with Ralph Fiennes, Eddie Izzard & Jim Broadbent, and then the shoddy editing and combines with the incredibly miscast Uma Thurman to cripple what might have been a worthy film version of The Avengers. Like others however I would love to see the Director's intended cut as I think that would at least salvage the film and offer some reassessment of it for future posterity... The shame is, if it wasn't for the madness of casting the extraordinarily wooden Uma Thurman to recreate Mrs Peel, if they had just taken as much care as they did in casting Steed, then between the two of them they might just have lifted this movie a notch in peoples minds - great chemistry between the leads can often mask much of the flaws in what the production and script fall down on....
Someone else commented: "I was entertained by this film , you cannot duplicate the classic series but , still it is a good try. Uma was a very good mrs.peel but Ralph is too stiff as steed. Still it is fun. "
Deusirae79 Hear! Hear! And Uma Thurman...none of grace of that Diana Rigg (May she be resting in peace) brought. Now, would the original cut change that? Maybe.
hazel goodshepherd I am a diehard original Avevengers TV show fan and I really like this too! Lol but I know I shouldn't because it wasn't a great representation of the series, but on it's own it's great! The music, the visuals, the bizarreness lol It's just a bunch of weird scenes barely held together by a barely there plot. It's just fun though!
It's included in the list of "The Worst Films of All Time" I have literally no idea why other than butthurt fans of the original series who didn't feel it was similar enough.
As much as I love Ralph Finnes, he's no Patrick Macnee. Worst part of this movie is they have Pat Macnee in a cameo, as an invisible guy, in a basement! WTF?!
When I was a small boy, this was the first time and movie I saw Ralph Fiennes. And then on, I saw it as Voldemort, The English Patient and Schindler's list and so on.
Ralph Fiennes is excellent as John Steed. I would have preferred that Ema Peel would have been played by a British actress though. This movie wasn't as bad as the critics claimed but it could have been better. Critics have lavished praise on terrible movies and panned great ones. The Thing is a good example of a near perfect movie that critics hated. So I really don't pay much attention to critical reviews.
If you're talking about The Thing from 1982, it has 80% rotten tomatoes and 8.1/10 on iMDB (very good reviews) If you're talking about The Thing from 2011, it's insanely mediocre and definitely deserves its reviews
@@Tyc9909 Yes, John Carpenter's The Thing. The remake of The Thing from Another World from '52 or so. I think it was directed by Howard Hawkes? Anyhoo, I saw The Thing in the theatre in '82 and while I thought it was great, the critics at the time did not appreciate it and it lost money. In fact, it was panned quite badly at the time. Amazing, given the cast, the source material (it's based on a novel "Who Goes There" if I am not mistaken) and above all the special effects. A true tour de force. More amazing as it is as visually astounding as Alien with as good of a director and story. It's a faithful re-make to me original but better and pays homage in the best possible way to Alien. It's one of reasons Carpenter became disillusioned with the industry. The problem with IMDB ratings is that they don't reflect the true quality of a movie nor how the movie was originally received. Scarface, the Al Pacino one, is crap and always was crap and was deemed so at the time but has been inexplicably redeemed on IMDB. All opinions are my own.
A quiet walk of a morning in a quaint little traditional English Village. Marred only by occasional outbursts of violence aimed rather markedly at one...
The original cut has yet to surface; Warner Bros. has no plans to release a director's cut or special edition in any form, despite the fact that director Jeremiah Chechik has offered to recut the film for free.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you I can't say thank you enough for showing this Timeless classic Hollywood's New Avengers has taken up the name so much I could not find this series anywhere
@andreaggenbach8160 nah some movies its better and why only marvel? There's literally other movies it's like people barely watch any other movies and get salty over some marvel movies, guardian's of the galaxy 3 blows this movie out the water. They better not mess up season 2 of loki so I'm putting my hype low
Good resurrection for TV movie..these scenes should have been the opening credits with Lorrie Johnson 's theme ..Ralph was awesome for a dark spy comedy...
While I thought Ralph Fiennes was fine as John Steed, Uma Thurman was WOEFULLY MISCAST as Emma Peel. I don't believe she EVER studied Diana Riggs characterization and really should have. Macnee felt Elizabeth Hurley should have done the role. While I agree with him, I honestly think Finola Hughes from General Hospital would have been perfect. I also have mused about Annette Bening doing the part as well. She , too, would have been awesome!!
I took a motorcycle ride to llandudno in summer of 98, this was on in the old cinema (now another Wetherspoons) aged 25 and brought up with Patrick mcnee as steed this was an interesting watch, not too bad of a film but that hat looks oversized on his fiennes ( great actor from schindlers list)head unlike mcnees perfect fit in the 60s and 70s
Shame, with a cast like this it should have worked. Finnes and Thurman have zero chemistry and the script never realizes what made the TV show so popular. The show never took itself seriously but the cast never let on that they were in on it.
This was an updating movie on the Super English Spy series, The Avengers, from the 1960s. I don't follow the modern cartoon series. Like most British series, it was more intellectual.
The original cut has yet to surface; Warner Bros. has no plans to release a director's cut or special edition in any form, despite the fact that director Jeremiah Chechik has offered to recut the film for free.
This movie has several problems. But the main one was the casting. Thurman and Fiennes are good actors, but they don't have any chemistry. And that in this story is a crime
The opening scenes may have shown promise, but the film was a huge disappointment. It was trying so hard to emulate 60's cool, and failed miserably. A multi-million dollar misfire.
There was an idea... To bring together a group of polite people...
lmfao
When I'm done half of humanity will still exist
😂😂😂
😒
I remember sitting through this whole movie as a kid in theatres waiting for Captain America or Iron Man to show up.
That was a sad afternoon.
Aww :(
That was funny.
So was this film. Warner Bros. refused to have press screenings for film reviewers knowing that this debacle would receive bad reviews.
Imagine watching the 2012 Avengers movie and the original Emma Peel showed up.
@@neweddard9358 She would have been furious with this movie.
The critics can hate all they want, but Ralph Fiennes is delightful in this movie.
Absolutely.
if someone used delightful to describe me, i would be offended
@@christiansoto9755 you deserve to be
I loved it!
I agree that Fiennes did well in the role.
The film's failings are the result of the people making it emphasizing the surreal aspects the television show had in the later seasons rather than more traditional spy themes of the earlier seasons.
It's remarkable how many people have appeared in both The Avengers and Bond - Patrick MacNee, Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Joanna Lumley, Sean Connery and Ralph Fiennes!
You forgot Linda Thorson "Tara King"
@@brunopereiraikercasillas6265 Not according to IMDB...
shaun ryder too
Christopher Lee
As an Avengers fan , I was very eager to watch this movie back in 98 and was bitterly disappointed. What came to mind was it was 30 years too late .The movie should have been made in the 60s with our Pat, Honor and Di now reunited on the great stage in the heavens. We also shouldn't foget Linda still with us.
Although I definitely agree with you but still it was still good having this movie and series come out I just hate that the Hollywood that we got they co-opted the name
John Steed was a great agent. Too bad he left the ministry, studied the dark arts, and became ...... VOLDEMORT!
But he re-gained his conscience to be the head of MI6, right?
And now he's the founder of Kingsman.
Well, he and his wife were murdered in The Constant Gardener. Can you really blame him?
@@asch7906Guess what? He is the Kingsman on 2021 film
Jajajaja
James Willems is great in this
This looks like a prequel to Kingsmen
DJgambit 2099 Turns out you were right. And the same actor is playing a simple role in the King’s Man prequel.
That's funny, Fiennes plays the founder of Kingsman now.
Kingsman if it were eaten by Batman & Robin then barfed out.
Kinda is Ralph is leading Kingsmen Prequel.
You kinda or really predicted the future
John steed. The original kingsman
And now Kingsman on 2021 film
I actually enjoyed this movie. Can’t understand all the hate it received.
Me too, still like it to this day. I was in north Carolina when I saw it the cinema, made me feel a bit "homesick" lol
Because when u look at the 1960s tv show its based on its awful
Watch the original show starting with The Town of No Return. It's the first episode with Diana Rigg Season 4 Episode 1. There's only one John Steed and Emma Peel. The movie was a disaster just like The Wild Wild West with Will Smith. Watch the original Wild Wild West with Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. They should stop trying to remake classics. Nothing but box office disasters. 😮
@@robertjeffcoat441
Agree!!!
@@georgepom328
Not that much yeah but it was a different style though
Wait a minute, these arent the REAL Avengers.I can tell Hulk gives it away.
You would be amazed how many people don't know about the real Avengers--Steed and Peel and the others...
@@gbonkers666 This is the real avengers?
Bruv they might be working for shield but they ain’t avengers
The original came from the comics
Hulk?
I can see Frasier and Niles watching this
I lived there for 3 months doing some work once. Fantastic place with wonderful people, food and scenery. Cheers!
Where is it?
Original tv show was amazing
How this man failed to be the next 007 is baffling.
very very true
Atleast he became Bond's boss
This film is the reason that didn't happen.
0:16 Lightsaber sound effect.
Ralph is so versatile he can even be James Bond😉👍👍👍👍
Kamil Kalinowski he is M
He’d be a better Bond than Craig.
@@shepardbook Possibly when he was younger, maybe The English Patient era Ralph Fiennes, but idk. Craig is a damn good bond imo.
@@codyt821 Not a Craig fan. Looking forward to seeing who the next Bond will be. Was hoping for Tom Hiddleston, but I’m afraid his window has closed.
Or voldemort 😏
The opening sequence here is probably my favourite bit of this film, though there are several others! And that was the thing with this film for me - lots of memorable set-pieces and ideas, some inspired casting with Ralph Fiennes, Eddie Izzard & Jim Broadbent, and then the shoddy editing and combines with the incredibly miscast Uma Thurman to cripple what might have been a worthy film version of The Avengers. Like others however I would love to see the Director's intended cut as I think that would at least salvage the film and offer some reassessment of it for future posterity...
The shame is, if it wasn't for the madness of casting the extraordinarily wooden Uma Thurman to recreate Mrs Peel, if they had just taken as much care as they did in casting Steed, then between the two of them they might just have lifted this movie a notch in peoples minds - great chemistry between the leads can often mask much of the flaws in what the production and script fall down on....
Ralph Fiennes lacked a bit of the joie de vivre Patrick Macnee had, but I still like him in the movie.
Someone else commented: "I was entertained by this film , you cannot duplicate the classic series but , still it is a good try. Uma was a very good mrs.peel but Ralph is too stiff as steed. Still it is fun.
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Deusirae79 Hear! Hear! And Uma Thurman...none of grace of that Diana Rigg (May she be resting in peace) brought. Now, would the original cut change that? Maybe.
I have always loved this movie. And I have no idea why.
hazel goodshepherd I am a diehard original Avevengers TV show fan and I really like this too! Lol but I know I shouldn't because it wasn't a great representation of the series, but on it's own it's great! The music, the visuals, the bizarreness lol It's just a bunch of weird scenes barely held together by a barely there plot. It's just fun though!
Exactly =) One of those rare cases where it's not the best face of the original story, but it is so much fun you don't care.
hazel goodshepherd This needs the Directors cut released so bad!!!!!
It's included in the list of "The Worst Films of All Time"
I have literally no idea why other than butthurt fans of the original series who didn't feel it was similar enough.
same here its one of my guilty pleasures
The TV show was my favourite as a kid
Oh hear! Hear! I mean who didn’t fall in just fall in love with Diana Rigg’s Mrs. Peel? I think I was five or six at the time it first started airing.
This is the real Avenger!
Challenging the Tara King episodes these days. - a young foreign enthusiast of European retro culture, at his 20s
Never knew there is a universe where Voldermort is a good guy
No one exceeds Patrick McNee and Diana Rigg!!
This is actually a pretty good scene.
Infinity War looks weird.
another timeline lol
One of the timelines doctor strange feared
As much as I love Ralph Finnes, he's no Patrick Macnee.
Worst part of this movie is they have Pat Macnee in a cameo, as an invisible guy, in a basement!
WTF?!
When I was a small boy, this was the first time and movie I saw Ralph Fiennes. And then on, I saw it as Voldemort, The English Patient and Schindler's list and so on.
Ralph Fiennes is excellent as John Steed. I would have preferred that Ema Peel would have been played by a British actress though. This movie wasn't as bad as the critics claimed but it could have been better. Critics have lavished praise on terrible movies and panned great ones. The Thing is a good example of a near perfect movie that critics hated. So I really don't pay much attention to critical reviews.
If you're talking about The Thing from 1982, it has 80% rotten tomatoes and 8.1/10 on iMDB (very good reviews)
If you're talking about The Thing from 2011, it's insanely mediocre and definitely deserves its reviews
@@Tyc9909 Yes, John Carpenter's The Thing. The remake of The Thing from Another World from '52 or so. I think it was directed by Howard Hawkes? Anyhoo, I saw The Thing in the theatre in '82 and while I thought it was great, the critics at the time did not appreciate it and it lost money. In fact, it was panned quite badly at the time. Amazing, given the cast, the source material (it's based on a novel "Who Goes There" if I am not mistaken) and above all the special effects. A true tour de force. More amazing as it is as visually astounding as Alien with as good of a director and story. It's a faithful re-make to me original but better and pays homage in the best possible way to Alien.
It's one of reasons Carpenter became disillusioned with the industry.
The problem with IMDB ratings is that they don't reflect the true quality of a movie nor how the movie was originally received.
Scarface, the Al Pacino one, is crap and always was crap and was deemed so at the time but has been inexplicably redeemed on IMDB.
All opinions are my own.
I used to love this movie when i was a five-years old. And i completely forgot that it even exists.
A quiet walk of a morning in a quaint little traditional English Village. Marred only by occasional outbursts of violence aimed rather markedly at one...
Ralph Fiennes is possibly the most attractive man I‘ve ever seen.
Warner Bros. Please Release the directors cut!
The original cut has yet to surface; Warner Bros. has no plans to release a director's cut or special edition in any form, despite the fact that director Jeremiah Chechik has offered to recut the film for free.
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you I can't say thank you enough for showing this Timeless classic Hollywood's New Avengers has taken up the name so much I could not find this series anywhere
I love the scene with the nones.
Nuns
THE REAL AVENGERS!!!!!!!!!
Good! Keep it up!
Its been three years and you still have no replies
It's been four years and you still have no replies
The delivery of "macaroons" should be a mass joke but this point.
well this is Campy
Bad scroudge from the original!
RIP Diana❣
I actually like this movie and can’t believe all the hate it has received over the years. Definitely there are a lot worse movies out there
Yes like the marvel crap😒🤮
@andreaggenbach8160 nah some movies its better and why only marvel? There's literally other movies it's like people barely watch any other movies and get salty over some marvel movies, guardian's of the galaxy 3 blows this movie out the water. They better not mess up season 2 of loki so I'm putting my hype low
Wow before Voldy and M, Fiennes was John steed. That’s pretty cool.
I Saw With Marvel Cinematic Universe In 2012 Still The Avengers
I'm surprised that the movie was so badly received. I'm not an original TV series fan but I quite like the movie. Maybe that's the reason.
This, league of extra ordinary gentle man and blade are the movies once you start watching them you start enjoying them.
Good resurrection for TV movie..these scenes should have been the opening credits with Lorrie Johnson 's theme ..Ralph was awesome for a dark spy comedy...
Even with the Invisible Jones "Patrick Macnee" talks about the map where Sir August de Wynter controls the weather on a London Island.
No wonder it was renamed to assemble for uk release
2:17 They want you to meet somebody. An American, I believe. His name is Nick Fury.
Avengers: Endgame: The LEAKED Version
Ralph just lacked the panache and charisma of Patrick Macnee. Great actor but miscast for something so iconic. Same as Timothy Dalton as James Bond.
Good god, how long ago was 1998. I don't remember it being this long ago to be completely honest.
It's even more time now 😂
Well happy 25th anniversary to the avengers 98 film as the first british pre-avengers.
The grandfather of John Steed was Orlando Oxford/King Arthur
Just another day in the London Fields
The *real* John Steed would have tipped his hat
Best part of the whole movie.
Didn't even know this existed
I would like seeing a sequel to the (British tv ) Avengers Movie. I had loved watching the 60's show when I was young.
That was before he lost his wife and formed The Kings Man. Good times!
While I thought Ralph Fiennes was fine as John Steed, Uma Thurman was WOEFULLY MISCAST as Emma Peel. I don't believe she EVER studied Diana Riggs characterization and really should have. Macnee felt Elizabeth Hurley should have done the role. While I agree with him, I honestly think Finola Hughes from General Hospital would have been perfect. I also have mused about Annette Bening doing the part as well. She , too, would have been awesome!!
The founder of Kingsman
The Original AVENGERS 😊 & Kingsman
I love this better
I took a motorcycle ride to llandudno in summer of 98, this was on in the old cinema (now another Wetherspoons) aged 25 and brought up with Patrick mcnee as steed this was an interesting watch, not too bad of a film but that hat looks oversized on his fiennes ( great actor from schindlers list)head unlike mcnees perfect fit in the 60s and 70s
god damn it, wrong avengers i was looking for.
One became M, the other became an Mi6 assessing officer. Again.
23 weren’t expecting the nuns.
When you want to the avengers movie and your parents say that we the avengers movie at home
I looked up something funhaus related and this was the second result
Ralph really nails Steed. Its just a shame about Uma Therman. Kate Beckinsale would have been a better choice.
one great movie...👌✌ after the King's Men please make another.😊
Ah yes the kingsman before kingsman
Who came here after hearing news anker...
90s Avengers ❌️ 2012 avengers ✅️
Anybody here because of cinemasins? I didnt even know this movie existed until today.
Bond's M in his first life ... :-)
the best part of this movie 😌😌
So this is why they cast even british actors on Bruce Wayne now i see
Anyone came from that Inside Edition video of a grandpa tripping a thug?
wait guys its not a marvel movie its a movie based on tv series on 1960s the avenger
This is how british parents walked to school
The nuns toking up off set was a playful little gesture.
The original Kingsman
A well dressed , gentlemanly secret agent . Not a superhero. See the 1960 English television series.
Shame, with a cast like this it should have worked. Finnes and Thurman have zero chemistry and the script never realizes what made the TV show so popular. The show never took itself seriously but the cast never let on that they were in on it.
0:24 what film tecnique is that?
That describe the name of the character or place presented.🤔
Please annyone knows
Nothing like an intro that explains next to nothing about the character and leaves you even more confused.
This was an updating movie on the Super English Spy series, The Avengers, from the 1960s. I don't follow the modern cartoon series. Like most British series, it was more intellectual.
Hello.. Maria how are you?
He looks as if he be James Bond instead of M. Or even the Doctor from Doctor Who.
A universe where Tom Riddle is a good guy than a tyrancial hitlerish dictator but faces an evil version of James Bond
Don’t say no to Master Fiennes lol
Warner Bros, release the director's cut!
The original cut has yet to surface; Warner Bros. has no plans to release a director's cut or special edition in any form, despite the fact that director Jeremiah Chechik has offered to recut the film for free.
I don’t remember iron man wearing that hat, but ok
It's my boi!
Is this King's Man new trailer?
whose here after that grandpa tripped the robber chased py cops?
Why is everyone saying this movie,this is absolutely garbage
This movie has several problems. But the main one was the casting. Thurman and Fiennes are good actors, but they don't have any chemistry. And that in this story is a crime
Bruce Wayne from Britain
The opening scenes may have shown promise, but the film was a huge disappointment. It was trying so hard to emulate 60's cool, and failed miserably. A multi-million dollar misfire.