Love this movie... no matter how many times I've seen it, its still enjoying to watch

This movie was released in 1997, soon after the first Mission Impossible movie with Tom Cruise came out in 1996.

Although the movie isn't bad, in hindsight, I wish they made more effort to make it stand out like Mission Impossible did in 1996. In July 2023, we are days away from the premier of the 7th instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise. I'm sure that franchise is worth over a billion dollars at this stage.

To think that this movie, Val Kilmer's - The Saint, could have spawned a similar franchise makes me sad. I love Simon Templar's escapades from the original 1960s TV show.

The chemistry is so good, you’d think Kilmer and Shue fell in love on set. The villains and action are forgettable. Otherwise there’s a goofy charm to the movie.

>"My name is Thomas Moore. I was named after a Saint who died for his faith."

Val Kilmer and Elizabeth Shue are actually not bad in this movie. They bring some joy to it, but the movie itself is just bad. I feel like Val got offered this while his buddy from Top Gun, Tom Cruise, got offered Mission Impossible and one was done way better.

Stupid, juvenile, and unintentionally hilarious at times, but it's charming when this is the case. The spycraft and action has been done better in many other films, and if it were just for these elements I wouldn't have enjoyed it in the end. In fact I switched away from dissatisfaction right before they were about to introduce Elizabeth Shue's character, but went back in order to give her character the chance to save the film... and to me she did.

Her idiosyncratic charms are endearing, and while the love story is a source of a number of the unintentional laughs, those moments are also enjoyable for how they were meant to play. The plot gets a little long in the tooth in the third (and fourth?) act, but Kilmer and Shue are still fun to watch. Probably won't ever see it again, because the lines may be so-bad-it's-good at times, but Kilmer plays it a little too seriously to be truly good camp. Still, the chemistry with Shue is there, and she's a delight.

Good action and humor for an impossible argument.

A fairly good movie. Great way to while away an evening.

[spoiler]But how thick do you have to be to see an oil shortage and an oil magnate using it to stir dissent in the people against the government and not put two and two together?[/spoiler]

Level "Excellent" • 8 :heart: • Recommended.