Sorry for the delays in updating. Blogging is hard. To get pack on track I'm going to give some abbreviated posts for the past couple flicks.
The Saint is the story of an orphan kid who grew up in a really rough orphanage. The strict ass nuns force them to take the names of Catholic saints, so our future hero gets named Simon. His first girlfriend accidentally gets tossed off a balcony to her death while he was showing off his lockpicking skills. This obviously sours his experiences with Catholocism and maybe even morality when he grows up and turns into Val Kilmer. Dude turns criminal. Straight up master theft criminal. Straight up master of disguise criminal. Straight up vocal stylist criminal. You get the idea.
The story has quickly jumped to his adult years where he's ripping off the Russian mob. Read that sentence again. Yes, he's trying to be a cat-burglar to the most dangerous criminal organization around. Smart. So master thief Simon Templar (as in the Teutonic order!) blows this robbery.
There's a high stakes target he needs to rob from that the Russians are also after. It's Elizabeth Shue. She's developed cold fusion and apparently it's quite lucrative. She's got the formula written on notes that she keeps in her bra. Our hero, of course, gets her out of that with a bad costume as a professor of some sort that reminds her of her ex. Unfortunately, our professional thief makes the predictable mistake of falling in love with her.
Kilmer is downright terrible with some of these accents. I can't understand why they wouldn't spend a little extra on a decent speech coach.
The Russians are after them, they're in love, he's a master of disguise and a hugely successful con artist. This is how my parents met too. They get away, happy ever after the end. Boom!
Alright, blog. Just a couple more to go until I'm caught up!
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