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Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

  • Starring: Elisabeth Shue, Val Kilmer
  • Summary: Val Kilmer plays suave espionage hero Simon Templer - aka The Saint - and Elisabeth Shue costars in this atmospheric mix of bold adventure and grand romance. An array of sophisticated gadgetry is at Templer's command as he plunges into a cloak-and-dagger netherworld of move and countermove.   (Paramount) Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 22
  2. Negative: 4 out of 22
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Reviewed by: Darren Bignell
    60
    There's no lack of style or pace from Noyce, just the sense that it isn't quite gelling together.
  4. While the original conception of The Saint gave us a debonair, sophisticated and roguish detective, the new movie, directed stiffly by Phillip Noyce ( "Clear and Present Danger" ), gives us Val Kilmer as a greedy high-tech daredevil thief with the moves of Batman, the clunky disguises of Tom Cruise in "Mission: Impossible" and the morals of an alley cat.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. Jack
    10
    This is one of my all time favorite movies. It's predictable, it's completely off basis with the real science of cold fusion, Elizabeth Shue is horrible, but it works for me. Expand
  2. SimonT.
    7
    it was a fun movie,i like it much better then james bond or else it was funny, exciting and it worked on me :)

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