Saint, The

Originally a television series years ago, and now a modern day movie, TheSaint is pumped with action, suspense, romance, deceit -- and all of the above.

Val Kilmer proves his great acting abilities, playing the creative Simon Templar. He's the so-called "saint," who makes his living as a thief, taking on close-to-impossible tasks to bring in the big bucks. Hischaracter is very complex, searching for meaning in life.

In thebeginning, we see his childhood of growing up at an orphanage for bastardchildren who are all named after Catholic saints, thus incurring theforeshadow of his becoming the so-called "saint."

Today, Simon Templar conducts his jobs as a thief by taking on disguises with personas all under saints' names, thus inferring the nickname.

Val Kilmer steals the show in those scenes. Wanting to retire from his profession once he breaks an even $50 million, an opportunity arises. His mission is to steal a formula a chemist is working on for her theory of cold fusion. There is only one problem: he ends up falling in love with this chemist, Dr. Emma J. Russell (Elisabeth Shue).

After he delivers the formula to his client, more problems surface because it's incomplete, and he doesn't get paid. It turns out that his client is a crime lord involved in the Russian mafia, and Simon's on their death list.

The suspense starts getting intense when Dr. Russell chases after Simon to get her formula, and the mafia wants her dead as well. Now, Simon must get paid and try to convince the woman he loves that he's really worthy of his nickname and not such an ill-reputed thief.

The actors are quite nice to watch with their good looks, as well as their acting abilities, and there's a very interesting take on modern Russiansociety.

Also, this movie's got an awesome soundtrack with music way ahead of its game.

Worth seeing.