At least it was when I was 7! If you like The Vikings, Scaramouche, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Crimson Pirate, you absolutely can not go wrong with this. Curtis is excellent (in an anachronistic sort of way) and Torin Thatcher is one of cinema's greatest villains. I wish someone would bring it out on DVD!
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The Saint
(1997)
Life's too short....
14 August 2003
I can't believe there are so many comments praising this film! What were you watching?
I don't really care that it's nothing like the series, although I'm old enough to remember it well (but why bother calling it "The Saint" at all?). I do care that it's one of the most sloppily written, acted and directed films ever made. Phillip Noyce's real interests lie in serious films like "Rabbit-Proof Fence" and I'm sure he knocked this one out in his sleep for the money.
Val Kilmer delivers the same narcissistic, hollow performance he always does - but this time he gets to do it in lots of different disguises. The scene where he acts as some kind of poetry-spouting bohemian (think of Barry Gibb with a French(?) accent) in order to seduce "scientist" Elisabeth Shue is - and I really, really mean this - the most embarrassingly awful 10 minutes I have seen in any film, ever.
Life really is too short to waste 2 hours of it watching this film.
I don't really care that it's nothing like the series, although I'm old enough to remember it well (but why bother calling it "The Saint" at all?). I do care that it's one of the most sloppily written, acted and directed films ever made. Phillip Noyce's real interests lie in serious films like "Rabbit-Proof Fence" and I'm sure he knocked this one out in his sleep for the money.
Val Kilmer delivers the same narcissistic, hollow performance he always does - but this time he gets to do it in lots of different disguises. The scene where he acts as some kind of poetry-spouting bohemian (think of Barry Gibb with a French(?) accent) in order to seduce "scientist" Elisabeth Shue is - and I really, really mean this - the most embarrassingly awful 10 minutes I have seen in any film, ever.
Life really is too short to waste 2 hours of it watching this film.
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