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Starring:
Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Craig Bierko, Tom Amandes, Brian Cox, Patrick Malahide, David Morse, Melina Kanakaredes, Yvonne Zima, Yvonne Zima, Joseph McKenna, Dan Warry-Smith
Directed By:
Renny Harlin
Written By:
Shane Black
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
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Movie Review by Thom
August 30th, 2007
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Fun but Frivolous
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 Baltimore is Geena Davis, trying to piece together a shady past to overcome an uncertain future. To help Sam/Chuck is a brilliant, wise-cracking Sam Jackson playing the crooked ex-cop now P.I., Mitch Henessey. To even try to quote any of Jackson's remarks would be a disservice to Jackson's impeccable timing. Brian Cox, in one of his funnier roles, chips in with comical assists as Charlie's former CIA contact, Dr. Nathan Waldman.
The action is ridiculously over the top, with Jackson's Henessey displaying the fortitude of Jason Voorhies as he is shot, stabbed, thrown from a moving vehicle, jumps from the second story window into a frozen-over lake, blown up, and repeatedly beaten only to emerge unscathed at the film's closure. People also jump from helicopters, shake off hypothermia, etc. only dying from these traumatic events when it is convenient for the simple if somewhat pointless plot.
Long Kiss Goodnight is fun when it stops trying to be serious, and probably best watched when one takes it in that same spirit. It has enough snappy one-liners to fill a novella, but otherwise has little to offer.
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