What is The Avengers (1998 movie)?
{{italic title}}{{Distinguish|The Avengers (movie)}} '''''The Avengers''''' is a 1998 [[United States|American]] [[action movie|action]] and [[spy]] [[movie]]. It comes from [[The Avengers|the British television series of the same name]]. ==Plot== [[John Steed]], the agent of the Ministry, completes a training course. Dr. [[Emma Peel]] gets a phone call telling her to go to a gentlemen's club. She meets Steed for the first time there. The two head off to the Ministry to meet Mother. Mother tells them the Prospero project-a try to change the weather-was sabotaged by Emma Peel. Dr. Peel says she's innocent. She is then sent to work with Steed to find the real [[suspect]]. Steed and Emma follow a lead to the Wonderland Weather. It's a business that creates heat or other weather with a special machine. Steed and Emma find two dead men in [[teddy bear]] suits. Members of a secret organization led by Sir August de Wynter wear teddy bear suits to disguise their identities. However, one of them looks like another Emma Peel. Steed arrives in time to save the real Emma Peel. Steed and Emma go off and visit de Wynter at his [[mansion]]. But then, they are attacked by mechanical [[bee]]s. Alice, a Ministry agent, helps Steed and Emma flee. However, de Wynter catches Emma as she tries to escape though finds herself trapped. It is later revealed that the other Emma Peel is a [[human cloning|clone]]. Father and the Peel clone catch the real Emma Peel. They're angrily met by Mother. Mother is then incapacitated. Father and Peel's clone take the real Emma to a [[hot air balloon]]. Father and Peel's clone die when the balloon crashes and explodes. Invisible Jones learns de Wynter is using the Prospero instruments on a secret [[island]]. Steed and Emma arrive at the island to stop him. ==Cast== * [[Ralph Fiennes]] as [[John Steed]], a British Ministry agent * [[Uma Thurman]] as [[Emma Peel]], Scientist, Ministry agent * [[Sean Connery]] as Sir August de Wynter, a weather scientist and a terrorist * [[Jim Broadbent]] as [[Mo