The Saint

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.

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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In Time

What if the time that you have left to live is measure by the time show in the clock and time has become the ultimate currency for you to buy your way out of it.

Live forever or die trying, In Time is a 2011 American dystopian science fiction action film written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol.

By the year 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging at twenty five years old and after that a clock implanted in people's forearms is activated with one more year to stay alive. When the clock reaches zero, one die instantly. Time has replaced money as currency and the wealthy that live in specialized town, New Greenwich are immortals while the poor live in ghettos of Dayton are exploited and forced to live with a few hours or days. They need to work, borrow, beg or steal to stay alive and to pay for daily necessities. Thieves steal time and the timekeepers (resident police force) control the society. 

One day, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) saves the rich Henry Hamilton (Matt Borner) from a dangerous time-robbery assault in a bar. Henry tells that he is 105 years old and is tired of living, since there is no need for the deaths in the unfair society. When Will wake up in the next morning, found that Henry has transferred 116 years to him and commits suicide. Will runs to meet his mother Rachel Salas (Olivia Wilde) to credit time to her but she dies leaping into his arms with her time expires before the transference. Remembering what Henry told him about the inequity of the time system, Will decides to seek revenge and heads to New Greenwich but the timekeeper, Raymond Leon (Cillian Murphy) believes that he killed Henry to steal his time. 

Will meets Sylvia Weis (Amanda Seyfried) who is the spoiled daughter of the millionaire, time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) in a party. When Raymond arrests him, Will kidnaps Sylvia and brings her to the ghetto of Dayton where he lives. Sylvia feels how despicable her father is and together with Will, they steal a large quantity of time to fight against the time system.

It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, 

but it’s good too, to check up once in a while 

and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.

Time is more valuable than money. 

You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

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