The British black comedy Parting Shots was the past movie directed by Michael Winner. I. Q. Hunter listed Parting Shots as a person of the candidates for "the Worst British movie ever manufactured". An adaptation of the preferred nineteen sixties British sequence of the identical name, The Avengers starred Ralph Fiennes as John Steed and Uma Thurman as Emma Peel, with Sean Connery as their antagonist, Sir August de Wynter. The Times.