Excellent, Without a doubt!!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Kilmer has a lot of fun becoming a myriad of different disguised faces, all sharing the names of famous religious saints. It's a light hearted, fun movie with very little violence, which is rare in most spy movies. Also, the soundtrack is rather nice with a good selection of 90s electronic artists like: daft punk, the sneaker pimps, david bowie, moby, and many others. It brought back a lot of memories on the music alone. Definitely not a bad movie and worth a watch on Amazon ATM. Check it.

The Saint (1997): Dir: Phillip Noyce / Cast: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Henry Goodman: What kind of saint is this? Val Kilmer plays a disguise expert in a heating oil shortage in Russia where he is hired to steal Elisabeth Shue's work formula. They fall in love, which contract problems when he cannot steal from her. Kilmer does what he can with a role of virtually no feeling or emotion. Basically he is as concealed as his character is when donning a mask. The romance between Kilmer and Shue is an unnecessary distraction. Shue is basically there for a scene where she heats him up when he is freezing cold. Then they are off and running in subsequent chase scenes. Director Phillip Noyce is backed by fine production but no story. He previously directed Dead Calm, and had to be after directing this high budget geek show. Rade Serbedzija plays a typical villain with nothing to do other than to cause plot contrivances. There are too many endings and not one none of them good except perhaps the closing credits. Rather than be about identity, it is hyped up with special effects and a lot of mayhem and loud noise. Hopefully some of that noise will be the garbage truck should be the final resting place for this foolishness. Score: 2 / 10

Always been a big Val Kilmer fan,, and he did not disappoint in this one,, along with Elisabeth Shue as his love interest overall I thought that the movie was pretty darn good,, An international thief Simon Templar,, although not his real name,, he takes names from patron Saint's from the Catholic Church. His goal is to reach 50 million,, then he will retire ,, one more job to get there, simple just steal the formula for Cold Fusion from the Russian's and help them get back to Communism, and bring about the downfall of the United States.. simple right,, except for the fact there is one thing that he didn't count on and that is falling in love with the person whom he stole the formula from,, now the 2 of them have to escape the Russian Mafia, as they travel the globe trying to escape the evil clutches.. very well made film,, I enjoyed very much, and will have to watch again very soon.

The cliffhanger escapes, the dastardly villains, and the superbly staged action scenes in "The Saint" are good enough to compensate for the poor casting, slipshod writing, and last-minute script alterations that plague this hagiography. Val Kilmer, fresh from the respectable "Ghost and the Darkness" and the lukewarm "Island of Dr. Moreau," steps into the role of the suave, debonair gentleman adventurer. Kilmer makes the most of the multi-dimensional role. The Leslie Charteris literary hero is a cat burglar, escape artist, gigolo, electronics wizard, man of a thousand faces, and confidence man who survives by the skin of his wits. Although this glossy, $70-million-plus epic is a dazzling looking romantic thriller, "The Saint" sinks if you think too much about its hi-jinks."The Saint" is a kind of freelance 007. Since he escaped from an abusive Catholic school in the Far East at age five, Simon Templar has been amassing a fortune. Templar refuses to retired until his bank account tops $50-million. Lately, the Saint has been sparring with Ivan Tretiak (Rade Serberdzija of "Manifesto"), a long-haired Russian tycoon who runs the mafia in Moscow. A shortage of heating fuel has crippled Mother Russia in the dead of winter. Hundreds are freezing. Ivan wants to parlay the heating crisis into a way to topple Russian president Karpov (Eugeny Lazarev of "The Ice Runner"). As it turns out, an astute American scientist, Dr. Emma Russell (Elizabeth Shue of "Adventures in Babysitting") has devised a formula for something called cold fusion that can save Russians and help Tretiak make more marks in Russians eyes than Lenin. Tretiak turns to the Saint to steal the secret formula from Emma.Australian director Philip Noyce spent his last two assignments putting Harrison Ford through the paces of "Patriot Games" and "A Clear and Present Danger." "Die Hard with a Vengeance" scribe Jonathan Hensleigh co-scripted "The Saint" with "Cape Fear" writer Wesley Strick. Despite their considerable talent and imagination, they faltered in their efforts to fit the character into the 1990s. For the record, Charteris wrote 90 original Saint Novels beginning with "Meet the Tiger" (1928) and ending with "Salvage for the Saint" (1983).When we first spot him, the Saint is getting flogged by a priest because he won't conform. The child rebels and escapes from the school, but not before he causes the death of his childhood sweetheart. Kilmer's Simon Templar has a politically correct dark side because he feels guilty about the girl's accidental death. Incidentally, "The Saint" is a chick flick. Val bares his chest, but Elizabeth Shue doesn't. While "The Saint contains Indiana Jones-style derring-do, the film never drenches itself in blood, gore, nudity, or profanity. You don't have to shield your eyes from anything offensive. "The Saint" amounts to a one-man "Mission Impossible" with the emphasis on serio-comic romance and danger. Eventually, the Saint and the scientist team up to take on the bad guys. The Russian winters appear picture postcard perfect as captured by lenser Phil Meheux, and "The Saint" makes splendid use of Red Square and other notable sights. And it's not Kilmer's Saint who gives the Russians the formula for fire, but Shue's soft-hearted scientist.The problem here is that Shue is woefully miscast as a nerdy she-scientist. She is a great actress, but she just doesn't fit the role. "The Saint" asks us to believe that a babe like Shue could be a brilliant scientist. Actually, she would have been more credibly cast as the babe daughter of a brilliant scientist. More than likely Hensleigh and Strick have compressed two characters into one character. They then ask us to believe that a scientist as brilliant as she is would abandon her principles for Kilmer's pectorals. She confides in Simon that he never had to steal what she was willing to give away. This almost makes it all too easy for Simon. Oh, yes, how many brilliant scientists store their secret formulas on scrap pieces of paper in their brassiere? Finally, Hensleigh and Strick dream up a flaw for Shue's scientist; she suffers from heart disease. There is nothing wrong with a character who has flaws. They even feature a scene where the Saint nearly freezes to save her heart pills from floating down river. There is nothing wrong with that either. Except by the end of the movie, however, Shue's brilliant scientist no longer requires her heart medication. So why did they make such a big fuss about them in the first place? This is another sign that the writers have their halos on crooked.As heroes go, "The Saint" isn't so much a saint to cheer as a sultan to envy. Indeed, Kilmer's Cupid good-looks will seduce the ladies, but the guys will lust after his new candy-apple red Volvo C-70 coupe, his playboy lifestyle, padded bank account, and eternal ability to outsmart his foe. If there were ever a movie that sold itself on the charisma of its protagonist, "The Saint" does, with a pasha's price tag. Sadly, in terminating one "Saint" for a more venerable "Saint," the filmmakers have sold out not only a sound plot line but the character's literary heritage. If you looking for fast, breezy nonsense that look fantastic, "The Saint" is worth a peek.