The Saint

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Summary: THE MOVIE RULED THE SAINTS
Review: This is an awesome movie. For anyone who enjoys Bond-like movies, this is it. Good script. Great soundtrack. (I have both) Very sweet love story. Val Kilmer, once again, is the unidentified agent who saves the world. Predictable? The plot will make up for it. I promise. If you haven't seen it, do so. Chances are you'll be in the mood for some spying.

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Summary: Great movie!!
Review: I love Val Kilmer!! And even though his acting wasn't ther best I've ever seen him do (check out "Tombestone" for that, he was very good and great for the part. I LOVE his talent for accents, changing from a Australian accent to a German one in a few seconds. And these accents are not in the least cheezy or unbelieveable. I guess that is a talent that Val Kilmer posseses as an induvidual. It shows through in "The Ghost and the Darkness" and "Tombestone" as well, but in this movie He does dosens of accents. If you listen carfully he has the same accent when he is "Agust Christopher" in the embassy near the end, as he has the entire movie in "Tombestone", as the incredible Doc Holliday. This is a wonderfull movie! Val Kilmer is truly talented!!

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Summary: a perfect movie
Review: This is the greatest movie in the entire world. I've seen it about 100 times, at least. I love it. This is Val Kilmer's best preformance yet.

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Summary: The best movie I've every seen!
Review: AT first I've seen the film in Switzerland in 1997 in English and one Year later in German on a video tape. I know it's action and a little bit too unrealistic and it could be better at all, BUT I am sure that everyone can find a little bit his own dreams in the movie. It's an action-,spy-,science-fiction-,politic-,romantic film. And I love this film and the music of it. Buy it and you'll be happy! Also because of the great actors!

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Summary: Ungodly, to say the least.
Review: To be fair, this film would have been quite nice if it hadn't claimed to be about Charteris' character Simon Templar (alias The Saint). For anyone who's ever read any Saint novels, Noyce's characterization of Mr. Templar leaves a lot to be desired. It's as if James Bond were portrayed as an unshaven hoodlum who drank cheap beer and didn't iron his Sea Island cotton shirts.

The techno-gadgetry was nice, but the Saint would have eschewed such gauchery and walked in the front door and said "Give me the chip, Algernon."

The best part is the car horn, playing the motif from the old Saint TV series.

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Summary: Incredible
Review: THE SAINT contains all the important requirements for a good film - Talented and sexy actors; cool and modern music played at all the right parts; clever and diversive action; powerful intimate scenes; a humorous but not too humorous dialogue; and a satisfying ending. All this comes together smoothly to create the bad-ass movie that is, the Saint.

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Summary: Bad script, nice scenery
Review: Val Kilmer was in a no-win situation : Stick with playing Batman, or head on out and play "The Saint." Maybe he should've opted for Broadway instead. I dunno.

Beginning with the introductory sequence that has Kilmer as a child, we learn that he is going to be a crafty one. Picking a lock to feed hungry children, he nearly pulls off another stunt - Getting that oh-so-important first kiss from a sweetheart. Sadly enough, though, she tumbles to her death.

Twenty some-odd years later, Kilmer is now grown up and continuing his trade with modern electronic gizmos. If you wish to have only good thoughts about this movie, stop the tape after he makes his first escape, rewind it, and send it back to the store.

What follows makes little to no sense. Of what can be deciphered is a Russian businessman's plan of controlling Russia, first by stealing the formula for cold fusion, then trying to get it to work, and then proving that it can't work to embarrass his political rival.

This is all a backdrop to a love story between Kilmer and the scientist behind the cold fusion theory, Elizabeth Shue. Yes, only in Hollywood are drop-dead gorgeous, young (but brilliant) female scientists plentiful.

Then, of course, is the humorous (uh...no) side story of Scotland Yard trying to catch Kilmer, to no avail.

Had "The Saint" tried to settle on just one of these stories and stuck to it, perhaps there would have been a fair chance to turn this into a decent movie. Instead, what occurs is that the screenwriters tried to jam as many stories into this movie as possible, resulting in the worst of all three worlds. The main story (about the Russians) is implausible bordering on impossible, the romance is the same, and the Scotland Yard fiasco feels like a last-minute rewrite.

One of the movie's traits is that Kilmer gets to use this movie as a springboard for impressions and impersonations. Surprisingly, I found "Fletch" to be a better use of a man using multiple personas to get the job done then in this picture. While some of it works, most of it doesn't.

And, in the end, that's pretty much how the entire movie is : Some of it works, but a lot of it doesn't. Thankfully, they'll be hard-pressed to finance a sequel for this one.

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Summary: Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The Saint was awesome with the Russian Mafia. I think the Russian Mafia made it a lot better. I like all of the spy stuff too. If you haven't seen this movie go and rent it then buy it!!! It is so awesome!!!!

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Summary: Good movie; DVD not too great
Review: If you've seen the movie and love it, well, get the DVD. But: the transfer is pretty weak at certain points, *especially* during the "revelation at Red Square" scene near the end. The DVD doesn't seem to have enough data on it to deal with the fast pans through the crowd, so it looks like there is some horizontal resolution missing.

Another quibble with the DVD: the director's commentary is the MOST BORING commentary I have ever heard. To be fair, I only listened to the first 13 minutes of it, but it bored me to tears. Noyce drones on and on about the old versions of The Saint, and the old days of Hollywood, and how he came to direct the film (a story he begins in the first 13 minutes but doesn't finish), and so on. Who cares? I want to know what it was like to work with Val Kilmer, how they did a few of the shots, where they found their makeup crew, etc. Just a matter of taste, I guess.

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Summary: It was cool
Review: Probably the first movie I've seen where the main character is as crafty as James Bond and manages to save the day without killing anyone.