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  • 1997
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 1997
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 56 m

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)

Directed By: Phillip Noyce

Written By: Leslie Charteris, Jonathan Hensleigh, Wesley Strick

  • 1997
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 56 m
  • 1997
  • PG-13
  • Paramount Pictures
  • 1 h 56 m

The Saint

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 45 User Ratings
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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)

Directed By: Phillip Noyce

Written By: Leslie Charteris, Jonathan Hensleigh, Wesley Strick

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
50
32% Positive
7 Reviews
50% Mixed
11 Reviews
18% Negative
4 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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32% Positive
7 Reviews
50% Mixed
11 Reviews
18% Negative
4 Reviews

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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.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
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.
By Desson Thomson FULL REVIEW

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6.9
60% Positive
27 Ratings
36% Mixed
16 Ratings
4% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 45 User Ratings
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27 Ratings
36% Mixed
16 Ratings
4% Negative
2 Ratings

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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 FULL REVIEW
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 FULL REVIEW
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 FULL REVIEW
25
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.
By Barbara Shulgasser FULL REVIEW
0
Top-heavy with whimsy, so muddled it makes Mission: Impossible look like a model of narrative cohesion, The Saint is the apo-theosis of the new incoherence, with the cliches of espionage and action thrillers jammed together like bumper cars.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Paramount Pictures, Rysher Entertainment, Mace Neufeld Productions, Robert Evans Company
Release Date Apr 4, 1997
Duration 1 h 56 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Cunning. Devious. Dangerous. Treacherous.
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Awards

BMI Film & TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Razzie Awards
• 1 Nomination
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
• 1 Nomination

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