Review of The Avengers (1998) by Richard D — 01 Apr 2015

Wow ... this is not a good movie. I haven't completely decided whether the fault lies with Warner Brothers for cutting 1/4 of its running time or whether there was never much hope of it being any good.

I lean towards the latter. While I have no doubt that it's incoherent plot is the fault of the studio, it has other issues that seem more fundamental. The cast is great on paper, but that doesn't seem to translate to the screen.

Fiennes is okay, if not very engaging, but Thurman is pretty terrible. Connery seems totally adrift. The action is busy, loud and uninteresting.