El Santo (Import Dvd) (2000) Val Kilmer; Valeri Nikolayev; Henry Goodman; Elis

An international thief gets involved with Russians who are going after a new form of free energy. Based on the 60's British TV series though it's nothing like it, it still manages to be a fun escapist action thriller with good performances from Val Kilmer as Simon Templar, a thief and master of disguise who uses the names of saints as aliases and Elizabeth Shue as a scientist. Watch for a voice over cameo right at the end of the film from Roger Moore who played The Saint in the 60's British TV series as a radio announcer. There's also some good slick action scenes in a daft but enjoyable film.

The Saint is a pleasantly surprising film. A lot different from the Roger Moore TV series, it sort of follows the Brosnan Bonds in being a stylish actioneer with a slightly absurd plot. Yet it's a very entertaining film with many great things about it.Val Kilmer is terrific as Templar managing to play the smart spy who finds his softer side. Kilmer does a brilliant job at doing different accents and changing appearance too. Elisabeth Shue is excellent as Emma Russell, making her incredibly likeable.The music is simply superb. The most effective thing about the film is the relationship between Templar and Russell. Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue have amazing chemistry as a lot of the time you can easily forget they are acting it's so natural. The visual tone that the film goes for is very stylish. The action is also enjoyable when it pops up.A solid, silly, but always engaging romp.

Critically panned at the time I simply loved this piece of camp action. Val Kilmer dresses up, unconvincingly, in all sorts of disguises. He is supposed to be a cat burglar but gets wound up in the most improbable piece of international espionage ever.If you’re looking for high drama move along. If you want a fun silly film grab this right now.

This is a very strange film about a very unusual saint. This saint is neither a saint nor a hero, but merely an unprincipled young man who robs and seduces for money, under the rather thin excuse that he had an unpleasant childhood as an orphan in China. Didn't we all? Nevertheless, your unsaintly critic managed to suspend his disbelief for a very pleasantly entertaining hour or two, to forget any notion of critical acumen as wholly inapplicable to this wonderfully implausible Hollywood extravaganza, and to sit back and enjoy the ride. Thrill to the beautiful and breathless Elisabeth Shue, the true saint of the story, an impossibly naive scientist who has discovered the secret of how to energise the entire world from a bucket of water! Marvel as she exchanges her virginally white laboratory overall for the seductive leather of the professional spy! Wonder at the villainy of the professional villains, who are about to take over Mother Russia and return it to the days of Ivan the Terrible! Gasp at the variety of disguises of ... Enough. It's a film. I enjoyed it. So will you. And if you don't, the Saint will come and haunt you, in the guise of your old history teacher...

One of my favourite movies of the 90's and one I could watch over and over. Not Val Kilmers most realistic performance and maybe it would have been a bigger success with someone else, but the supporting cast, storyline and soundtrack make up for it, for me. Nice cameo appearance from Roger Moore as the radio announcer at the end of the movie, a nice touch, then of course there's the Duran Duran track with the end credits.

A very entertaining DVD. Recommended.

Good actors and enjoyable film

Enjoyed watching this film on tv and wanted the dvd to watch again