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Title: unforgivably bad
Review: How can you improve on perfection? The original series with Diana Rigg was one of the best ever. It was campy, perfectly synchronized with the oddities of 1960s design, worldview, and style, and told good, short stories. It was a wonderful world unto itself.By contrast, this film tries for camp without synching with the times, for an old-fashioned chemistry that it traduces (Emma and Steed had wonderful sexual tension, but everything else was implied, never shown), and for a weird yet believable story. But it fails utterly.This film is so bad that it is like making a comic book version of a comic book. Not only do Fiennis and THurman utterly lack chemistry, in spite of their great talent, but the plot is simply and stupidly unbelievable. I think that this is the worst tv-remake I have ever seen. That answers the question: you shouldn't try to exploit perfection by slapping together a stupid film.Not recommended. THere are far better things to waste one's time on.
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