The Saint (film)
- Val Kilmer: Simon Templar
- Elisabeth Shue: Emma Russell
- Rade Šerbedžija: Ivan Tretiak
- Valeri Nikolayev: Ilya Tretiak
- Tommy Flanagan: Scarface
The Saint - The Saint ( Original title: The Saint ) is an American movie from 1997 in which the developed by Leslie Charteris, Simon Templar figure of at the center. It was directed by Phillip Noyce, the screenplay written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick. The main roles were played by Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue.
Action
Raised in an orphanage master thief Simon Templar commissioned by Ivan Tretiak, the scientist Emma Russell to steal the formula for cold fusion. The formula turns out to be incomplete, Templar and Russell are being chased by Tretiak, who wants to take power in Russia. Here Templar and Russell are getting closer.
It comes at a coup. Tretiak accused the former rulers of wasting huge sums for the study of cold fusion. During a demonstration, however, it turns out that the formula now completed by Russel and was told a Russian scientist. Tretiaks attempt the takeover fails.
Russell wants to put their discovery of the world for free. The masked Templar visited her presentation; he gives the police present to recognize and escapes.
Reviews
TV hearing and seeing 17/1997 described the film as " thrilling, but painfully silly ." TV Today 09 /1997 described the act as "the stupidest story of the theatrical year ", TV movie 09 /1997 as " extremely weak."
James Berardinelli compared the film to ReelViews with GoldenEye, with whom he could not really measure. The title character differs greatly from the main character of the television series of the 1960s, which would have served as the inspiration of the film. The end was disappointing. Berardinelli praised the wonderful presentation by Elisabeth Shue.
The lexicon of the International film said: " A staged exciting and with great effort of technology and equipment action thriller based on a novel and television series ( " Simon Templar ") with a first psychodynamic main character The Russia - image, however, corresponds to very the. of the Cold War, and the updating of the action up to avert a coup leads the otherwise straight and solid development history to absurd heights. "
Awards
Graeme Revell won the BMI film music award for film music. Elisabeth Shue was nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award.
Background
The shooting took place in England, at Oxford and in Moscow at Pinewood Studios. The cost of production was estimated at 70 million U.S. dollars. The film grossed worldwide about 169.5 million U.S. dollars, including about 61.4 million U.S. dollars in the cinema of the United States.
In the original English version speaks Roger Moore, star of the original series, the voice on the car radio and the final text.
Some of the scenes were also in Sofia, Bulgaria, rotated, including in front of the National Theatre " Ivan Vazov ".