Doo doo do doo doo doo doooooo..... dum-de-dum-de-diddly....
What's this? Orbital doing a film theme? Yup, following on in a long tradition of old TV shows remade as shite Hollywood blockbusters, here's "The Saint", a film that was almost but not entirely unlike any of the old series of the show you may remember. Charisma-vaccuum Val Kilmer sleepwalks his way through the film as Simon Templar. I can't tell you anything else about the film as I never stayed awake long enough to know what the hell it was about. The only good thing about it was the revamped theme tune from the Hartnoll brothers, who were obviously dragged in following their "Ipcress File" sampling film noir-ish single "The Box" twelve months earlier. They'd go on to have some form in this area, with good soundtracks for the movies "Event Horizon" and "Beached" from errr.. "The Beach". Oh and their valiant efforts to get the Doctor Who theme gig. "The Saint" was their joint biggest single, reaching number 3 in April 1997. Nice postcard - should have been a t-shirt.
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