Who won the movie
Val Kilmer
Roger Ebert
Cruise or Hanks
Cruise
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 14:16
Kyle Brandt: The title, disguise gimmick, lead and origin story are considered enough for many location-based sequels; an earlier release might have changed the competitive landscape.
Bill Simmons: Mission Impossible is acknowledged as the stronger competing product with better masks and a more compelling central star.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 1:33:28
Bill Simmons: Do not store a world-changing formula on notes in clothing, and do not use an easily decoded naming theme.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
The volatile, talented on-set personality is nostalgically defended.
The Saint should have become a multi-film franchise.
Undisguised Simon is less interesting.
Smashing Pumpkins and the computer evoke1997.
The frozen-river escape and Thomas’s seduction are the personal choices.
Would the dramatic seduction work today?
The rat-race club rivals Red Square.
The river chase and underwater view are nominated.
The Nokia9000 Communicator
Post-Soviet villains, heist devices, disguises and embassy runs
Does shouting American nationality secure embassy entry?
The broken wine bottle
The river and rat-race club
Six Underground is preferred to the Pumpkins cover.
Ivan Tretiak is preferred, with Simon Templar acknowledged.
Plain Simon and transparent disguises are weaknesses.
The orphanage opening, dated Internet and limited stunts
No clear choice; Emma’s nervous bathroom behavior is the best candidate
Shue is proposed as the greatest screen kisser.
Brosnan, Fiennes, Gibson, or Grant
Tretiak’s actor, Tommy Flanagan and Ilya
Emily Mortimer’s brief stewardess cameo
Keep Moscow; Fincher or Tony Scott could direct.
Emma warming Simon in her underwear is the flex choice.
Flex pick · Kyle Brandt
Roger Moore cameo and disputed conduct reports.
Kilmer’s1995 Batman/Heat year is preferred.
The electronic scene and cold fusion receive support; other apex cases are limited.
Cruise
Scorsese is preferred, perhaps moving the film to Italy.
The cold-fusion specialist or the Saint himself.
The scientist’s secrecy, disguise logistics and medical continuity
A sequel
Gus Johnson calling the warming scene.
Tentatively, the theme or score
Uncertain despite mutual incentives to stay together
How long does the relationship last?
Seduction ethics and global effects of cold fusion.
The cane, Nokia phone and knife boot are wanted.
How does the boot blade deploy?
Protect discoveries and vary aliases.
Tombstone and The Island of Dr. Moreau
