1997 · thriller · action · romance
The Saint
Directed by Phillip Noyce1h 56m1997
Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Our read: The Saint (1997) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive thriller · action · romance entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme thriller / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, tender.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- tender
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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