The film had became one of my favorite after watching it fifteen years ago; fast paced and action oriented with plenty of drama, guns, explosions and also, I was fascinated with the intrigue in the film. It's like modern day version of Robin Hood.
Phillip Noyce directed The Saint in 1997, a romantic action film based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint".
At the Saint Ignatius Orphanage, a rebellious young boy named John Rossi refers to himself as "Simon Templar" - the first name from Simon Magus and the last name from his childhood heroes, the Knights Templar.
Speed ahead and the young boy is now a professional thief dubbed "The Saint" for using the names of Catholic saints as aliases in bidding wars with countries for his services. Slick, debonair and a master of disguise, Simon (Val Kilmar) manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job, Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a revolutionary cold fusion energy formula from a pretty and intelligent American electrochemist Dr. Emma Russel (Elisabeth Shue). Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case, the mission backfires as he falls for her placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young chemist.
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Phillip Noyce directed The Saint in 1997, a romantic action film based on the character of Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris in 1928 for a series of books published as "The Saint".
At the Saint Ignatius Orphanage, a rebellious young boy named John Rossi refers to himself as "Simon Templar" - the first name from Simon Magus and the last name from his childhood heroes, the Knights Templar.
Speed ahead and the young boy is now a professional thief dubbed "The Saint" for using the names of Catholic saints as aliases in bidding wars with countries for his services. Slick, debonair and a master of disguise, Simon (Val Kilmar) manages to outwit the police again and again. On his next job, Simon is hired by the Russian Mafia to steal a revolutionary cold fusion energy formula from a pretty and intelligent American electrochemist Dr. Emma Russel (Elisabeth Shue). Cold fusion is said to permit a nation to heat its citizens with only a few gallons of water. However, on this case, the mission backfires as he falls for her placing him in a quandary of fulfilling his professional obligations or staying with the innocent young chemist.
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers,
who begin to interest us at first sight,
somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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