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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
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Geena Davis and her former husband, director Renny Harlin, attempted to pick up the pieces after the debacle of their box-office disaster, Cutthroat Island. What they came up with was this repulsive ode to American film noir, based on a script by Shane Black (Lethal Weapon) about an amnesiac schoolteacher (Davis) who searches for her true identity and finds she is actually a secret agent immersed in a deadly plot to topple the government. Mechanistic in its violence, obnoxious in its attitude, the film makes Davis, a once-promising actress, nothing more than a special effect. She tosses one to sadists in the audience by...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight Movie Review by Jarrod  (7/12/2008) |
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In 'The Long Kiss Goodnight', Geena Davis plays Samantha Caine, who is essentially a female version of Jason Bourne. She has amnesia, but has constructed a false identity for herself after she woke up eight years ago on a beach somewhere, two months pregnant. She is a schoolteacher, is happily married and raising her...
(complete The Long Kiss Goodnight review by Jarrod)
| The Long Kiss Goodnight Movie Review by B Movie Ben (3/17/2007) |
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Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson were on fire in this film. The premise was totally unbelievable: a small-town school teacher one minute and the next coolly declaring to an enemy ''You're gonna die screaming. I'm gonna watch.''
That was the story. Seven years of amnesia and now she is back to finish her job. There is...
(complete The Long Kiss Goodnight review by B Movie Ben)
| The Long Kiss Goodnight Movie Review by Thom (8/30/2007) |
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As with any guilty pleasure movie, Long Kiss is not a very good film. It's silly when trying to be serious and serious when trying to be silly, and only the skillful barrage of wise-ass remarks betwixt characters render the movie watchable if not entertaining.
Starring as the housewife-to-superspy Samantha Caine/Charlie...
(complete The Long Kiss Goodnight review by Thom)
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