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1997 Certificate 12
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Based on the popular television series of the same name, THE SAINT finds Val Kilmer taking over the mantle from George Sanders and Roger Moore to star as Simon Templar, the suave international espionage expert and man of 1,000 faces. Based on Leslie Charteris's popular series of spy novels, the film finds Templar being hired by .. Read more

Starring Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Michael Byrne
Director Phillip Noyce
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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The Saint

Based on the popular television series of the same name, THE SAINT finds Val Kilmer taking over the mantle from George Sanders and Roger Moore to star as Simon Templar, the suave international espionage expert and man of 1,000 faces. Based on Leslie Charteris's popular series of spy novels, the film finds Templar being hired by the Russian mafia to swipe a formula for cold fusion from the professor who discovered it. Templar's assignment gets complicated when the professor turns out to be the fetching Dr. Emma Russell (Elizabeth Shue), with whom he promptly falls in love, putting him on his Russian retainer's bad side. Soon the Russians are closing in on he and his new love, and Templar must keep them from both killing the professor and getting their hands on the formula.

Starring Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Michael Byrne, Alun Armstrong, Henry Goodman, Valeri Nikolayev, Valery Nikolaev, Lev Prygunov, Verity Dearsley, Tommy Flanagan, Lucija Serbedzija
Director Phillip Noyce
Studio PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 51 mins
Certificate Certificate 12
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language DVD: English
Dubbed Czech, German
Hearing-impaired English
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 04 Dec 2000
Production year: 1997
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Saint

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  • 1 stars out of 5

    This empty, lumbering spectacular turns author Leslie Charteris's gallant law-breaker into a cat-burgling James Bond clone. Both Val Kilmer, in the title role, and Elisabeth Shue are miscast in a mundane tale about a Russian billionaire who's trying to discover a way to glean energy from tap water. Scientist Shue has the “cold fusion” formula stuffed into her bra and practically the whole of director Phillip Noyce's misjudged fiasco has her and Kilmer being chased by the Russian Mafia. It's sloppily plotted, unexciting and laughable — Kilmer plays the debonair Templar as a cross between Inspector Clouseau and Leslie Phillips — and any episode of the 1960s TV series starring Roger Moore (who pops up as the voice of a newsreader over the end credits) would be infinitely superior to this expensive farrago.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • An action adventure that commits the unforgivable sin of being dull. There are attempts to reposition Charteris's suave hero as a man with a troubled past, in the manner of the modern version of Batman, and to turn him into another James Bond. Both fail,

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 6 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

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    I have to say this is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Val Kilmer is hopeless, Elisabeth Shue is charmless, the plot is a loud chaotic mess and it has as much in common with Leslie Charteris's 'The Saint' as I do with Bradd Pitt (i.e. none).

      • A customer from England
      • Posted 05 Jul 2004 15:51

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  • 6 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Have to disagree

    I have to say this is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Val Kilmer is hopeless, Elisabeth Shue is charmless, the plot is a loud chaotic mess and it has as much in common with Leslie Charteris's 'The Saint' as I do with Bradd Pitt (i.e. none).

      • A customer from England
      • Posted 05 Jul 2004 15:51

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    Kilmer to get Deja Vu with Dark Matter

    • 27 Jan 2006

    Val Kilmer has signed up to star in two new movies that are set to dominate the box office in the coming year. Firstly he will be reunited with director Tony Scott and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, who all worked together in Top Gun and True Romance, in the crime drama Deja Vu. The film will also bring together Denzel Washington (Crimson Tide, The Manchurian Candidate) and James Caviezel (The Count Of Monte Cristo, The Passion Of The Christ) in the tale of time travelling FBI agents. Kilmer,... Read more

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