A generic suspenser that doesn't taste bad at first bite but becomes increasingly hard to swallow.
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05/20/08
The Saint (1997)
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Reviews Counted:15
Fresh:3
Rotten:12
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: The Saint is watchable thanks to Kilmer and Shue, but the muddled screenplay stretches credulity.
Runtime: 1 hr 58 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Simon Templar (Val Kilmer), AKA The Saint, realizes his skill for trickery during his childhood in a Far East orphanage. He uses his natural born gifts, including a penchant for bizarre and... [More]
Starring: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeri Nikolayev
Director: Phillip Noyce
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Reviews for The Saint
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Top CriticThis insufferable romance-adventure includes vague comedy as well as unintentional humor, and its target audience seems to be preadolescents who won't notice the calculated enthusiasm with which it sidesteps sexuality.
05/20/08
Top CriticLove redeems this profiteer; it also renders him conventional.
03/06/05
Top CriticReinvention in the hands of Hollywood is seldom cause for celebration.
06/26/02
Top CriticThere isn't a contemporary film actor more crafty than Val Kilmer -- or one who reveals less of his true self. That's why Kilmer is so perfectly cast as Simon Templar, the master thief and elusive disguise artist of The Saint.
06/18/02
Top CriticMore entertaining than Mission: Impossible or the last Bond film, Goldeneye, it brings back the humour and sang-froid that makes the genre work.
04/12/02
Top CriticWhereas something like Clear and Present Danger was briskly all of a piece, "The Saint" has difficulty making us believe that its diverse elements belong in the same motion picture.
02/14/01
Top CriticA soulless piece of claptrap.
01/01/00
Top Critic[Noyce] keeps things moving at a kinetic, involving pace.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe Saint is lightly entertaining, but there's very little here worth getting excited about.
01/01/00
Top CriticLoud, frantic, ridiculously overproduced and featuring a preening performance by Val Kilmer as a supposedly brilliant master of disguise, The Saint is sheer overkill.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe Saint is all glitz and comic-book spy plot with no more than a passing hint that Templar has a real personality behind the disguises.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Compared with the sensational stunts and special effects in the Bond series, The Saint seems positively leisurely.
01/01/00
Top CriticA piece of mass-market movie bubblegum that stretches incredulity and then snaps apart.
01/01/00
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