The Saint
April 3, 1997 in theaters
Simon Templar is a master of disguise and professional thief-for-hire who takes a job that puts him inside a dangerous Russian political conspiracy -- and across from a scientist whose cold-fusion discovery could change the world. Val Kilmer's 1997 take on the classic pulp hero is a stylish Cold War-era thriller with strong spy-film energy and a charismatic lead who makes the costume changes half the fun.
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The Saint is not trying to be 007 and it's better for it -- Val Kilmer leans into the theatrical, character-shifting nature of Simon Templar and builds a performance around reinvention rather than cool detachment. It's a mid-90s action thriller that has aged into something more interesting than its box-office reputation suggested: genuinely sleek, unexpectedly romantic, and anchored by a lead who was doing something different from the decade's other action stars. Worth a revisit for fans of the Action Legends collection.
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