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Why so much hate for The Saint (1997)?

submitted by Conspirologist to movies 3 monthsFeb 23, 2025 03:44:54 ago (+1/-6)     (movies)

Never watched the original show. Really like the movie. It's better than Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise. It's more human. The Saint is not invincible. Just a human who gets lucky in some situations. Also not always wins. No crazy stunts or SFX. Just an interesting character and story.

After watching it, I felt well. Went to sleep relaxed.

I think people bitching and moaning about it are just oldfag fans of the original show. Everybody who don't care, enjoy the movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120053


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[ - ] FreeinTX 1 point 3 monthsFeb 23, 2025 10:01:13 ago (+1/-0)

It was mid. 7 of 10. No way better than MI, which was made great by the "impossible" things pulled off by Ethen Hunt.

[ - ] xmasskull 0 points 3 monthsFeb 23, 2025 17:07:46 ago (+0/-0)

Foe me, it's "Val Kilmer", I just don't like his acting style.

[ - ] pickingrinninspittin 0 points 3 monthsFeb 23, 2025 08:02:11 ago (+0/-0)*

Why? Because it's not very well made or written. It's been years since I saw it so I'm not going to even try to go into specifics but I recall quite well my impressions and they were not good: The story was bland, the characters weren't engaging, whatever Kilmer was going for felt flat, and the female lead was miscast.

I'd never seen the TV series either but it was some sort of spy romp in good fun, and that's what the paying audience was expecting. And you can shit on that all you want but why call it "The Saint" but instead deliver something completely different? Instead of The Saint we got got this moody, uninteresting piece. I wouldn't say there was hate for the movie, but nobody cared about it and arguably that's worse.

Apparently it was a real passion project for Kilmer who turned down another role so that he could make The Saint. In hindsight a bad move because that other role -- I forget was it was now -- turned out to be a big deal. But Kilmer had a habit of interfering with the movies he was in so who knows.

Hey if you enjoyed it then I'm not trying to take anything away from that. Seriously, good for you. But you asked why the movie was not well received.