Movie Review: *** The Avengers (1998)

This is not the Marvel's Avengers, but an earlier movie based on a British spy television series with Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes as Emma Peel and John Steed.  Emma Peel is accused of sabotage of her weather machine, putting all of Britain in dander, and Steed her spy companion.  They are controlled by Mother and Father.  Sir August de Wynter, played by Sean Connery, is our mad scientist, responsible for framing Peel, and seeking to control the weather of the world, and thereby blackmail all of the countries of the world, if they want rain or sunshine.  Of course with a name like August de Wynter, he must be insane, but he makes a worthy opponent all the same.
There are several things about this show that are confusing, like why did the three spies have to split up to go through a maze.  Staying together would have been a better idea.  The show is sometimes really confusing and hard to follow.