Product Review

Avengers, The (DVD)

Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman and Academy Award winner Sean Connery star in this big-screen update of the 1960s cult television favorite featuring the exploits of pair of superhip superspies--The Avengers.John Steed (Fiennes) has been called to investigate some very strange goings-on in Her Majesty's kingdom: The weather seems out of control, foul, deadly--even for England. Someone is controlling the weather to bring the world to its knees. Everything points to Sir August De Wynter (Connery), former Ministry man, very rich, very odd, entirely too smart. Now, preparing to fight fire with fire, Steed pairs with the unflappable Mrs. Emma Peel (Thurman), a master of jujitsu, a doctor of meteorological science and a body made for haute couture.