The Saint

Release Date:Rating:

April 4th, 1997

Genres:

Action/Adventure, Drama, Suspense/Thriller

Subgenres:

Political, Romance, Spies

Plot Synopsis:

Never Reveal Your Name. Never Turn Your Back. Never Surrender Your Heart. Simon Templar, a fake name a young orphan invented for himself in a Hong Kong orphanage many years ago is now a suave...

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Directed: Phillip Noyce Written: Leslie Charteris
Starring: Velibor Topic, Michael Marquez, Lorelei King, Adam Smith, Lucija Serbedzija

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A pretty good movie, the plot as a little unbelievable but had good acting and a nice pace.

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[+] LA Weekly

90

The Saint works. The reason why it occasionally soars is Kilmer, an actor who’s happiest when burying himself in eccentric characterizations, a trick he performs repeatedly here even as he fills the screen with pure movie-star dazzle.
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[+] Dallas Observer

80

The Saint exists almost entirely as a vehicle for Kilmer's quick-change smarty-pants swagger, and it's inconceivable without him. He's great fun to watch--a squirish master thief with a wide streak of lewdness.
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[+] San Francisco Chronicle

75

Kilmer dons 12 disguises in all, polishes them with impeccable accents and pliable postures and gives a performance that's far and away the best aspect of the diverting The Saint.
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[+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

75

More entertaining than Mission: Impossible or the last Bond film, Goldeneye, it brings back the humour and sang-froid that makes the genre work.
by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

70

Director Phillip Noyce, who made "Dead Calm," "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger," keeps things moving at a kinetic, involving pace. And writers Jonathan Hensleigh (who wrote "Die Hard With a Vengeance") and Wesley Strick create a diverting human steeplechase.
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[+] ReelViews

63

The Saint is more of a character-based thriller than a strict stunts-and-explosions film, which is a good thing because the action sequences are mostly flat and obligatory. Even when he generates a degree of tension, director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger) is unable to sustain it, and the disappointing ending is not only long and drawn out, but lacks a sense of closure.
by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
[+] Rolling Stone

63

The Saint leaves star Val Kilmer and director Phillip Noyce (Patriot Games) fighting to enliven an exhausted character.
by Peter Travers | Read Full Review »
[+] Empire

60

There's no lack of style or pace from Noyce, just the sense that it isn't quite gelling together.
by Darren Bignell | Read Full Review »
[+] Los Angeles Times

60

For the future, the Saint is such an unpleasant and predatory manipulator, it's difficult to root for romance. And when Kilmer's mightily convincing Ice King begins to melt, it's so out of character with what's gone before that its believability is touch and go.
by Kenneth Turan | Read Full Review »
[+] Variety

60

A generic suspenser that doesn't taste bad at first bite but becomes increasingly hard to swallow, The Saint comes off more as a pallid imitation of Paramount's Eurothriller "Mission: Impossible" than as anything resembling the further adventures of Leslie Charteris' charming rogue.
by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
[+] Austin Chronicle

50

Director Noyce has a sure hand with the action sequences and keeps The Saint from bogging down too often in the mires of action film exposition (once again, think Mission: Impossible).
by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
[+] TV Guide

50

Kilmer slips in and out of a series of ludicrously elaborate disguises, some more convincing than others, while poor Shue shuffles through the role of a sexy, book-reading babe pretending to be a dowdy lady scientist in kneesocks.
by Maitland McDonagh | Read Full Review »
[+] Christian Science Monitor

50

Val Kilmer is fun as the mercurial hero, and Elisabeth Shue would be great as the physicist if she didn't waste so much time making googoo-eyes at her handsome new boyfriend.
by David Sterritt | Read Full Review »
[+] Washington Post

50

Though he is a master thief with a heart of gold, the new Templar has all the charm of one of those ladies behind the counter at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
[+] Chicago Sun-Times

50

Compared with the sensational stunts and special effects in the Bond series, The Saint seems positively leisurely. The fight scenes go on too long and are not interesting, the villains aren't single-minded enough, and the Saint seems more like a disguise fetishist than a formidable international operative.
by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »

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