Sitting through _The Saint_ was a strange experience; it didn’t come across as a film at all, more like an installment of a television series from a bygone era that I missed entirely. A little digging revealed why – the project began life as a pilot for a planned TV show in 2013, produced by Roger Moore and intended to evoke older styles. It was later reworked into a video-on-demand movie in 2015, but remained un…