The Avengers (1998 film)

The Avengers is a 1998 American action spy film adaptation of the British television series of the same name from the 1960s, directed by Jeremiah Chechik and starring Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman as secret agents John Steed and Emma Peel, and Sean Connery as Sir August de Wynter, a mad scientist bent on controlling the worlds weather and blackmailing various governments for sun or rain. Patrick Macnee, who played John Steed on the original series, makes a vocal cameo as the voice of Invisible Jones.

Steed and Emma follow a lead to Wonderland Weather a business that artificially creates heat or rain with a special machine where they discover two dead men in teddy bear suits. The members of a secret organisation led by De Wynter all wear teddy bear suits to disguise their identities. One of them, however, is a clone of Emma Peel. Steed arrives in time to save Peel, as the double jumps off a roof and disappears. Steed and Emma go off to visit De Wynter at his mansion but are attacked by mechanical bees. Alice Eileen Atkins, a Ministry agent, helps them to flee nevertheless, De Wynter captures Emma who then tries to escape but finds herself trapped due to the mansions everchanging floor plan. She smashes her way through a window, and Steed rescues her. Back at Steeds apartment, however, Peel is arrested by Father, as Steed visits Invisible Jones Patrick MacNee, a man inside The Ministry, to investigate the meaning of a map Steed found at Wonderland Weather. After viewing some photos of failed genetic experiments, Steed determines Father is working with De Wynter. Father and Peels clone capture Peel but are confronted by Mother, who is then incapacitated. De Wynter, controlling Prospero and the weather, confronts the worlds leaders. He boasts that he controls the weather, and they will buy the weather from him, will pay a lot for it, and will have until midnight to pay.Father and Peels clone take Emma to a hot air balloon, where Emma escapes during a snowstorm. Father and the clone perish when the balloon crashes and explodes. Invisible Jones determines De Wynter is using the Prospero instruments on a secret island, and Peel and Steed arrive at the island to stop him. Emma defuses the Prospero device just as a hurricane forms over London. Steed duels De Wynter and eventually gains the upper hand by impaling him with his own cane, causing De Wynter to be struck by a bolt of lightning. Emma and Steed escape just as the base selfdestructs, and share champagne on t

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