Also
known under the name of ‘Frequently Asked Questions about my Nokia
Communicator’. The year that this movie was released the Nokia
cellphone annex portable computer was heavily advertised. With splashy
scenes of the movie.
Val Kilmer plays the role of Simon Templar, also known as ‘The Saint’.
Oldies recognize the name: yes, the movie is based on the tv-series
starring Roger Moore. During one of his missions, our international
culprit and brat falls in love with Elisabeth Shue.
Valmer (underachiever number one) fails to bring any colour to his
action, but then the story drags anyways. He can’t help it, can he?
Karate-kid Shue, however, surprised me in an interesting role: a
nerdy doctor in physical science chasing the dreams of cold fission.
It’s definitely no wonder why so many people like her, and I think
she’s far more intelligent than the ‘average’ role she normally plays
in other ‘teeny-bop-no-brainer-movies’. On her role in ‘Cocktail’:
If I’d known that it was just going to be about these guys throwing drinks around then I might have had some second thoughts…
Apparantly she also plays a Bloom in Leopold Bloom (2003) (a movie inspired by James Joyce’s anti-hero).
But to get back to the topic: if you need to know how your Nokia
works (because you threw out that manual), the movie is worth
seeing. If you’ve a secret crush on Shue, it’s a good movie too. And
that’s about it.