Watched a couple of films on telly last night, neither of which were greeted ecstatically by the critics, or by the audiences for that matter. But as both featured highly attractive women kicking ass I watched them anyway…
The Avengers is full of good things - Sean Connery playing a Bond villain, Jim Broadbent as Mother, Uma Thurman in leather. Shame that it just doesn’t work. There are several reasons for this - the plot is complicated with extraneous elements (cloning, the treacherous Father) which don’t help the narrative at all; Ralph Fiennes was simply miscast as Steed and worst of all he and Thurman have no chemistry together at all. Steed and Peel are one of the great screen partnerships and if the actors playing them in a remake don’t spark then there’s simply no point.
Resident Evil has one good thing - Milla Jovovich kicking zombie ass.
