I was recently reading Moore's autobiography, "My Word is My Bond", and somehow he was involved in the production of this Val Kilmer movie. I think that as a result of him playing The Saint in the 1960s, he somehow acquired a financial interest in subsequent Saint movies and TV shows.
In any event, he said in his book that he and the producers "really messed up" with this movie, and that it didn't capture the spirit of The Saint, in his opinion.
That's like saying Mission Impossible, the first one with tom cruise, didn't capture the spirit of the show, but its not exactly SUPPOSED to be the show, its supposed to be different more modern updateing of it. it took bits of what the show had but basically was doing it differently. he should have known this, why roger moore would bash it is pretty ridiculous and pompous of him.
Realism, Remakes and Unnecessary Sequels are ruining movies!
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Seeing how The Saint is one of the worst movies I have seen I would have to agree with him.
shareMoore appeared at the end of the film as a radio announcer. If the film was a hit I doubt the Moore would be quibbling.
Its that man again!!
I'm with Moore. The movie sucked horribly.
shareI confess, I didn't understand this movie. Maybe I'm just not smart, what with the computer stuff and cold fusion chit chat, but then again...maybe it was too disjointed, too long, and didn't make sense, period.
For instance, Elizabeth Shue never seemed more than a real cute star struck college freshman; she was badly cast. No way was that chick a "genius".
Second, I love Val Kilmer in anything. He is superb in any role, I'd love to see him perform Shakespeare. He is a mismatch with Shue, a good actress certainly, but better suited to Karate Kid than Hamlet.
Casting problems aside, the plot was clunky. It was patched together
as if written by different people. I still can't figure out the Resistance woman in the sewers and why the villain`s son looked like one of the bad guys from Crocodile Dundee II.
Val Kilmer can do suave. Put him with a grown up woman, one GOOD writer, one good editor, and for God's sake, a good director, and try again.
... that it didn't capture the spirit of The Saint, in his opinion.Well he's absolutely correct. It doesn't. It has very little in common with either the books or Moore's TV series. I see it as a real disappointment. For instance it begins with that really interesting introduction in the boarding school, which ends up having virtually nothing to do with the rest of the story apart from offer some explanation for his love of his special pen knife.
I don't care what Roger thinks, I absolutely love this movie. It's 100x better then his lame TV show. This is a total guilty pleasure movie for me.
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