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Summary: One of the Better Action Movies of the Mid-90s
Review: Quite frankly, I'm surprised that more people don't know about this movie. The plot has been worked to death in many regards, but this movie offers much more than other books and movies of its type ("The Bourne Identity" by Robert Ludlum and "Code to Zero" by Ken Follet are both "spies with amnesia" stories.) What makes this movie so different? It's that the Samantha Kane character is cold-blooded, ruthless, and has no regard for human life. In short, she's much more effective in what she does than Ludlum's or Follet's characters. The movie is filled with suspense and plot twists, but its strongest points are the action scenes. Many movies of this type get bogged down in explosion after explosion (like "Lethal Weapon 4"), but "The Long Kiss Goodnight" manages to keep its momentum throughout the entire movie. I've never met a person who didn't like this movie--the problem is getting people to realize that it exists in the first place.
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Summary: Pretty, delicate Geena Davis as an assassin? You betcha!
Review: Samantha Kane (Geena Davis) is a pretty schoolteacher with a lovely life, a handsome fiancé, and a pretty daughter. She is a PTA member and a regular cookie baking mommy, except that she has amnesia.
Mitch (Samuel Jackson) is a lowly private investigator with the aging case of Samatha's past. When Mitch at last uncovers an old suitcase that may contain keys to Samatha's past, Samantha is also seen on TV in a Christmas parade by an inmate, someone from her past that would like to see her dead. When the inmate escapes and tries to kill her, Samantha realizes that pieces of her past are coming back to her and that her family is not safe. She leaves town with Mitch in order to track down the pieces of her life puzzle. Enter Charlie Baltimore, ex CIA assassin; the real Samantha Kane, and one very very badass woman. She is sexy and deadly, the best in her field; and her targets of her past are now aware that she is back. This movie starts just a little slow, but the pace soon becomes a rapid fire sequence of events where under extreme peril Charlie proves again and again that she is definately a force to be reckoned with. Who would have thought that the lovely and gentle looking Geena Davis could play the part of such a deadly and vicious woman? And yet she plays the part to such perfection that without a change of costume or hairstyle (at first) you can easily tell her persona from her facial expression alone. Absolutely stunning performance from Geena. Samuel Jackson is stupendous in his role as Mitch, playing a dorky and slightly incompetent anti-hero who finally manages to do one right thing in his life. One of my favorite moments, and one of the most memorable, is Charlie telling the bad guy, "You're gonna die screaming...and I'm gonna watch." When Charlie talks, you should listen. Absolutely fantastic movie. Enjoy!
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Summary: Satisfying
Review: I was channel surfing and stopped to watch this film primarily out of desperation. I am not a Gena Davis fan but I do like Samuel Jackson so that's how I found this great movie. Gena looked great, was totally believable as Samantha/Charlie and the story worked. There was not one slow moment and Jackson was perfect as the comic relief sidekick.
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Summary: Ahead of its time
Review: When this movie came out in 1996, it was mostly ignored by the public. The problem was that it just happened to be several years ahead of its time. Before "Lara Croft", "Charlie's Angels" and "Kill Bill", Geena Davis played one-woman-army Charlie Baltimore. She was really the first major actress to play this kind of role - a female superhero - and she did a damn fine job. Davis, who usually plays kooky or offbeat characters, is convincing and compelling at playing a woman trying to reconcile her past as a ruthless assassin with her present as a mother and schoolteacher. This movie is a fun, thrilling action film that also happens to star Oscar-calibar actors. I'd recommend checking it out and seeing what everybody missed out on 7 years ago.
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Summary: I enjoyed every minute of this movie!
Review: This movie goes down in my personal history books as one of the best *action* movies ever! Geena Davis totally rocks in this movie! Samuel L. Jackson did his usually superb job of supplying the humanity. Oh, I could watch this ten times back-to-back and never get tired of watching the moment Charli Baltimore reveals a shocking secret to her archenemy, or the moment she shares in the snow with a former student and his cigarette! Don't miss this movie--Geena Davis has never been hotter!
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Summary: Action-Packed Movie with a Decent Plot
Review: Okay, so the plot has been done before - CIA operative with amnesia suddenly discovers (in this case) she has some abilities that she didn't know she had and struggles with making her disturbing past work with her present identity. Then, throw in the private eye (Samuel L. Jackson) to pair up with Geena Davis as they bounce one-liners off one another while the action takes place. Sure, it's been done before, but this one is expertly done. The plot is simple enough to follow, but intriguing enough to keep you interested. The one-liners should keep you chuckling and the mixture of Geena Davis as CIA operative/school teacher works in this movie. If you like action, drama and a bit of humor, this one isn't a waste of your time.
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Summary: This movie is a stinker
Review: I can't believe my brother made me watch this movie. It's very boring. They probably could've cut about 2 hours out of it. This movie really stinks, but maybe I just don't like action movies. All I know is that this movie didn't hold my attention very well and the ending is so predictable. I hate happy endings!
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Summary: Geena kicks ass and Samuel saves the day
Review: This is a movie that was panned by critics, but it is truly one of the most enjoyable action movies of all time. Geena Davis is a schoolteacher/mom/fiancee, living a normal suburban life. The movie begins with her voice-over telling you that she woke up from a coma eight years before, with no memory of who she was. But she was pregnant, (the daughter plays a pivotal part in the movie) and she "knows" she was a schoolteacher. This was actually her alternate identity when she was a CIA agent, but that part of her memory is gone until events start happening around her that force her survival instincts and her assassin training to surface. Geena Davis is a true athlete, as evidenced by her real-life near-Olympian level archery skills. Whether she is kicking tail or getting her tail kicked, she is ultimately believable because you just know she is truly capable of doing the damn hard physical things she does. Sure there were doubles for some of the scenes, but Davis has such strength, dexterity and grace that you watch in awe as she does so much of the tough action work herself. She is all woman, and a woman with a good heart, but she has been trained to be a ruthless killer. She plays that difficult role with absolute perfection. Now team her up with Samuel L. Jackson, a low-rent private eye whom she hired as a last resort to help her find out who she really is, and you have a tremendous pairing. As her CIA persona starts surfacing, it is causing dissention in her life. At the same time Samuel Jackson lucks into some info about her. Because her persona starts fragmenting, she is desperate to learn her true identity. So she pairs up with Samuel and starts a road trip to follow up on the puzzling clues he's uncovered. It's an unlikely but ultimately very believable partnership. The dialogue is peppered with biting sarcasm, but is tempered with wit, intelligence, well-placed obscenities, and "just enough" poignance. They are wonderful together. The plot is great, and the action throughout is really first rate. This movie is basically why we bother to go to, rent or buy movies in the first place. We want to be thoroughly entertained, and The Long Kiss Goodnight does that as well as any film there is.
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Summary: The Long Kiss Goodnight - A superb action thriller!
Review: Of the many action thrillers out there over the years, The Long Kiss Goodnight stands out among the many as one of the best and an all time favorite. Who would've thought of Geena Davis as an action star? My only true regret about this film is that I didn't take the opportunity to see it when it was in the theaters. Accounting for the many great action films over the years, this is one of the last ones that due to the nature of when it was released, I first purchased this it VHS format and that tape was worn out. Having now purchased it on DVD and much more importantly, widescreen format makes it that much more enjoyable. The ever beautiful Geena Davis performs exceptionally and Samuel L. Jackson in the comedic role is nothing short of outstanding. The premise: Geena Davis is Samantha Caine, who eight years ago woke up on a beach suffering from complete amnesia, not knowing who she is or why she was there. Along with that, she was pregnant. All that is about to change, as it usually does in these types of movies, because someone who knows her very well happens to spot her on television and goes berserk because he believed he killed her eight years ago. In comes Samuel L. Jackson in the role of Mitch Henessey who is a low rent private investigator that she's hired to try and find out who she really was and his "secretary" has finally come up with some "workable" evidence. Add these two events and an auto accident into the mix and her memory is about to come back to her. What follows from those three events is certainly one of the best action/thriller movies to have been released in the last several years. Geena Davis is stunning in the action role, especially when she drops the "Suzie Homemaker" persona for the CIA counter assassin persona of Charlie Baltimore. If there ever was a movie that deserved a sequel, "The Long Kiss Goodnight" would be the one. I highly recommend this film to any and all fans of this particular genre as you will certainly enjoy it and it is certainly one that can be watched several times. {ssintrepid}
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Summary: The "real" truth about 9-11
Review: A superb action movie with loads of breathtaking scenes. For some morons collaborating in crimes against humanity in Somal_a, Serb_a, Afghan_stan, Ir_q or elsewhere this could be considered Food for Thought. You really don't expect us Democratic (ancient Hellenic word) citizens of the planet to believe that the attack of the 9 -11 was only a work of extremists or Arab terr_rists. The Truth may be out there baby but it's well hidden. There's only one thing for you to do. Free your Mind & the rest will follow (EN VOGUE). Believe me, you don't wanna miss this movie!
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