The Saint

and if you can give them a giant leeway- perhaps they'd get better over the next year, you could enjoy this. But my God, the last scene, him hiding behind a tree just makes you groan! Can anything scream stupid more than that? I've only seen a few of the original TV show, listened to every dang old radio show- starring Vincent Price, but this is not the Saint. It's some spy dude. And it falls into the same traps every other US (and who knows maybe the world) TV show does, for example, you have a female computer expert, who is not the Saint hence not the star, and when the expert is flummoxed, you have to have the Saint, the star, give a suggestion that even a computer novice like me would know, and the computer expert says something like "Good idea, I didn't think of that." I mean it's really something stupid like "Did you turn it off then on again?" But then, every mystery show does that. They're filled with idiot "experts" that the star has to suggest things to. Plus, some of the dialog is just so stupid. It treats the viewer as an idiot. But who knows, if you can ignore the books, the radio shows, the original TV show and it got non-insulting intelligent writers then maybe this could have been a show worth wasting an hour on. Not a whole-hearted endorsement.

It's quite frustrating to see a such a good movie idea as The Saint go to waste again and again since the original. Past that, this version is OK to watch if one has nothing else to watch, at a time when one MUST watch something... It has here and there some bits of good humor, action and acting ,but all in all it cannot shake off the B movie feel.

This is a slightly silly movie that doesn't seem to be able to realise that it shouldn't take itself so seriously. The plot feels like a long TV episode with convenient artifacts that allow the activities to proceed somehow. Some of the actors manage to put in a credible performance, despite the material they're given to work with - but alas, many of the others end up looking like earnest but inadequate hopefuls in the local amateur theater group.

The appearance of earlier 'Saint' actors is a nice gimmick that adds a couple of light fun moments and doesn't do any harm to the story. The predictable plot would probably be appealing to a young audience and it clearly stays within the bounds of family entertainment. Any deaths on-screen are sanitary affairs and the fights are unlikely to be traumatic viewing, even for audiences of a young age. A couple of bloody noses and a smear of blood on the floor are the total indications of gore - which should be fine for family audiences. The technology is pure cartoon nonsense (including the decrepit concept that electronic fund transfers stream money that has to move in smaller amounts, with a changing total as the transfer progresses. *sigh*). Unfortunately, the action scenes are mundanely generic.

The Saint is as credible as Robin Hood would be after a dozen sequels - and has the identical entertainment value. Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.

This movie had potential to be good, but fell short.

It tried in numerous occasions to lift its game but with low budget looking sets, questionable dialog, sketchy editing, accompanied with generic background music, sees this movie dragged back down.

I think the two main actors - Adam Rayner & Eliza Dushku - did a reasonable enough job, but some of the supporting cast are left wanting.

I would love to see a modern take of The Saint that befits the original, but sadly this movie isn't it. Having said that, they classed this as a TV Movie which is appropriate since this feels like a two TV episodes in one.

Accept this for what it is- a failed television pilot with added scenes added to pad it out to movie length.

The main reason this never made it to series has to be Eliza Dushku. She is a "black hole" that causes all action to stop any time she is on camera. She behaves as if she is heavily medicated -- delivering each and every line with the same flat monotone. I wonder why any performer with such a severely limited range can have a career even in Hollywood.

The other major failing here is with the basic plot. It is about as generic as possible, Absolutely nothing in this film is even remotely new or fresh -- it all has a "seen this all before many many times" aspect to it.