THE SAINT opens. Directed by Phillip Noyce. Written by Jonathan Hensleigh and Wesley Strick. Author Leslie Charteris's debonair gentleman thief gets ludicrously repurposed as a globe-hopping, disguise obsessed espionage operative in an overproduced, generic action vehicle with a miscast Val Kilmer as its chief liability. Co-starring Elizabeth Shue and Rade Serbedzija.