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Saint, The (1997)

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Release Date: April 4, 1997
Genre: Crime, Action, Suspense
Running Time: 116 minutes
MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for action violence, brief strong language, some sensuality and drug content.
Director: Phillip Noyce
Writer: Wesley Strick, Jonathan Hensleigh, Leslie Charteris
Cast: Lucija Serbedzija, Emily Mortimer, Charlotte Cornwell, Lev Prygunov, Irina Apeksimova, Yevgeni Lazarev, Michael Byrne, Alun Armstrong, Henry Goodman, Valeri Nikolayev, Rade Serbedzija, Elisabeth Shue, Val Kilmer

Simon Templar is a man of thousand faces and many more identities. He is also cold, trusting no one, until he meets Emma Russel, a scientist who has stumbled onto Ivan Tertiak's ambition: To become the first czar of the new Russian Empire. In a city without energy, a world without hope, he is running a scandal that could make him the hero of the city, or, if someone else were to announce it, the Read more

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Grade: C Despite being a grim film, The Saint was dotted a plenty with comical sequences. Val Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue do a good job. Unfortunately, I anticipated that The Saint would be an action thriller. I shouldn't have. There was more romance than action, the plot was weak, and the ending was dumb; the bad guy is proved wrong when they show that an imaginary process to make energy actually does work. Read the full movie review

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