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Poor attempt to establish to establish a franchise. Too much money spent on fees for Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy, because of their history with the "hero", and on location filming for the "ancestral home". The other principals were fine, even Adam Rayner, who just wasn't pretty enough, but had charm. Very lacklustre direction, with telegraphed plot points for the hard-of-understanding. It seems little more than a direct to video or buried on streaming, barely watchable tripe. Pathetic attempts at mystery, twists, plotting or character development. Sorry, but regretted watching this once the first 10 seconds were done
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/19/23
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a mi me gusto la peli 7/10
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars
02/27/23
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I remember watching The Saint back when it was a TV show with a suave Roger Moore. It was a sort of a light version of James Bond - where Simon Templar was smart, engaging and intelligent who traveled the world putting bad guys away.
Then, I guess, someone thought they should re-imagine this with a female sidekick and some ridiculous idea that the FBI (a US domestic agency) would somehow want to bring Templar to justice even though they have no jurisdiction outside the US.
To make matters worse, they couldn't have cast a more charmless, unsophisticated, uninteresting actor as Simon Templar.
The story is quite tedious and boring - written as a poor-man's Mission Impossible. There's no fun, no excitement, no wit, no surprises, no charisma at all in this movie... just a series of events that lead to another series of events that.... well, put you to sleep.
Sure, there are explosions and gun fights -- but frankly, I don't care about any of the characters or the 20 million flashbacks presented to deliver ho-hum backstories.
In addition to poor casting, the direction is basically average. The scene locations are staid. The McGuffin is lame. And the story, itself, is very unimaginative.
The script seems to have been written in a paint-by-numbers way so that once complete, you're looking at some generic portrait of something you've seen a million times before.
I honestly don't see the reason to reboot a franchise that was once great for its time - but today, just seems like a me-too type of spy-ish story. This film lacks.... um.... everything. Do yourself a favor, skip this one. If you must get your fix of do-goers trying to save the world - turn to the latest MISSION IMPOSSIBLE movie. While things always seem to go wrong with their plans, at least they're no foiled by some local police detective and a witless rogue vigilante FBI desk jockey.
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Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars
01/18/23
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Pretty good action & entertaining, AMA tough fight without a single sweat?
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
02/03/23
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First and only time I fell asleep watching a movie, that's how bad and boring it was.
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars
02/01/23
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Wow, only 2 audience reviews and 6 ratings! This gives me so much power to impact the over-all rating! I watched it mostly to see Sir Roger Moore's last performance. OK, so that was a bit of a disappointment, as it was just a cameo. I agree with half of the other audience critics though. It was a fun movie, with no more bad dialogue than one would expect from a series pilot... and less, actually, than one would expect from a FAILED pilot. OK, so the plot was a little thin & swiss-cheesy, but Rayner & Dushku make a delightful pair of "associates", and the twists were amusing. Best of all, the good guys win! (I cheated a bit on the stars- added 1.5 to my actual rating- guess the power went to my head.)
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
01/12/23
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