The Long Kiss Goodnight
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Movie Reviews of The Long Kiss Goodnight
Movie Review: A great spy thriller!
Summary: 5 Stars
It is obvious that the film this one will be most compared to is The Bourne Identity (Widescreen Extended Edition). Some will call this a "women's version" of Jason Bourne. While this label may have some degree of veracity, it is only fair to note that this movie came out 7 years BEFORE the first BOURNE film.
There are, however, a lot of parallels between the films. On that point there is no argument. Like Jason Bourne, Samantha Kane (played by Davis) has amnesia, and eventually discovers that she is a CIA assassin. However, it takes about a decade before this begins to come into view. In the meantime, she becomes a housewife and a mother & lives a "normal" life in the 'burbs.
When she is discovered to still be alive, some rather nasty people (both bad guys + the CIA) want her dead - NOW! Luckily, she is able to invoke the help of her newfound good buddy, Mitch (played by Sameul L. Jackson). Normally, Mitch is a 2-bit private detective who makes more $$ swindling people than anything else. He goes from that life to becoming involved in a cloak-and-dagger struggle of the 10th degree.
While Jackson is great & all, there are in the end 2 words that convey why you should see this movie: Gina Davis. She is absolutely outstanding in the role of a good-neighborly housewife who must switch into being a cold-blooded killer. I do not hype up Gina just because she is a pretty face. Anyone who has read any number of my reviews knows that I've been known to slam a great many pretty-faces who could not act. This is a role that I can think of very few women in Hollywood pulling off (Charlize Theron is about the only other one I can think of off-hand). Some of my other favorite actresses, such as Jennifer Connolley, Sandra Bullock and Madeline Stowe are all fine actresses. However, they all lack the "edge" and intensity to fill this role. Whoever casted Gina Davis for this role should get many kudos!
If you are into action movies / spy movies / cloak-and-dagger movies that have lots of excitement, then this film is for you. Yes, some of the action sequences are not believable, but this is after all an ACTION movie! You always have to sacrifice some degree of believability for a great action flick. So, with that said, the best advice I can offer is for you to allow Gina Davis to give you a long kiss goodnight. Who would refuse that?!?!?
Movie Review: An Over-The-Top CAMP DELIGHT!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Delectably, deliriously, dementedly awful, The Long Kiss Goodnight is one of the very best Bad Movies to Love of the '90s, no small accomplishment in a decade that also gave us Wild Orchid, Zandalee and Showgirls.
The fun begins when Geena Davis, a demure, redheaded, schoolteaching single mother who suffers from amnesia and cannot recall having been the world's deadliest hired assassin eight years ago, collides with a reindeer. Voila. Davis begins to get hints of her previous vocation. In a dream sequence Sigmund Freud would have fired a patient for having, goody-two-shoes Davis stands atop a stormy cliff facing her sexy, bottle-blonde image in a mirror. "I want a cigarette," growls the tough-talkin' reflection, to which the nice Davis prissily replies, "I don't smoke." "Ya used to!" snaps the blonde. Director Renny Harlin chooses to cut from this all-too-revealing dream sequence to a dump truck picking up garbage (discuss meaning amongst yourselves).
Soon Davis's dark side starts cropping up during waking hours. The mere chopping of a carrot turns into a dicin', slicin' display of aggression that is, frankly, reminiscent of one of those infomercials for sharp cutlery. Whipping through every vegetable in the kitchen, Davis beams maniacally, "I used to do this. I'm a chef!" Perhaps not. When she nails a tomato to the wall with a perfectly tossed knife, her daughter and boyfriend are justifiably terrified. "Chefs do that," explains Davis. But later, when she tells her kid, who's just fractured a wrist, "Life is pain! Get used to it!" there's no pretending Davis's previous life was benevolent. To make the point even clearer, a one-eyed thug who knew hit woman Davis way back when breaks into the house and hits Davis on the head with a heavy pot, whereupon she knocks him out cold with a cream pie in the kisser, then breaks his neck, and, as her boyfriend watches, tastes the pie filling off the corpse, explaining, "Chefs do that."
Determined to discover the truth about her past, Davis hits the road with "low rent" private eye Samuel L. Jackson. While Jackson watches the classic Robert Altman film The Long Goodbye in a motel room the next evening, Davis looks in a mirror in her room and again sees the skanky blonde version of herself, who suddenly reaches out from the mirror to try to kill her. Alas, she doesn't succeed.
All hell breaks loose when more bad guys from the past show up and try to extinguish Davis and Jackson. The attacks only serve to bring the amnesiac's deadly personality fully to the surface. Davis transforms the drab version of herself into a sleek blonde hit babe, who for some reason is wearing only a bathrobe and excessive eyeshadow. At the sight of a bloodstained arm bandage on Jackson, the new, true Davis suddenly opens her robe, flashes her bare bod at him, then rips off the bandage. "Same principle as deflowering virgins," she says. "I read it in this Harold Robbins book: guy bites her on the ear, distracts her from the pain. Ever try that?" "No," replies Jackson, "I sock 'em in the jaw and yell, 'Pop goes the Weasel!'" This spicy dialogue arouses Davis to pant in Jackson's ear, "I haven't had a date in eight years." Like the rest of us, Jackson isn't buying: "A beautiful white lady seducing the colored help? Get real, sweetheart. I ain't rich, I ain't handsome, and the last time I got bl--n, candy bars cost a nickel." Who says there's no longer a need for affirmative action?
The next day, a car full of killers chases Jackson, prompting Davis to strap on ice skates to outrace the speeding automobile and blast the villains. The mayhem reached a climax on Christmas Eve when Davis outwits her foes by (1) putting kerosene in a Betsy Wetsy-type doll, (2) taunting a knife-wielding killer with the line, "Oh honey, only four inches?" and, finally, (3) collapsing so that her daughter can reprise the innane line, "Life is pain! Get used to it!" At this point, you'll want to rewind to the scene that provided this movie with its place in Bad Moviedom. Yes, listen once again as Davis, driving an oil rig outfitted with a doomsday bomb, becomes the first (and, we'd bet, the last) action heroine to snarl at her opponents a remark that could have become her catch phrase (alongside Arnold's "I'll Be Back" and Willis' "Whoopie-ki-yay...) had she continued on to acheive a much deserved action-star status!
Movie Review: A Fantastic Movie.
Summary: 5 Stars
This film is really one of the best action films Ive ever seen. It is truly fun to watch, even if you watch it over and over again. I was most surprised by Geena Davis. Her performance is actually very good as an action star. Her action and her acting were both done extremely well. Then theres Samuel L. Jackson. God, hes cool in this film. He has so many lines that are largely funny and not corny. Him and Geena have a good chemistry on screen that really makes the movie work. The action is pretty much non stop. Those action scenes are shot very nicely and they look awesome. This movie most certainly isnt meant to be taken seriously and is meant to have fun watching. It succeeds in doing so. Its a great little action film that will keep you entertained even if you watch it a dozen of times. Movie Review: Get the popcorn and enjoy.
Summary: 4 Stars
I heard that this movie tanked at the US box office and i'm not sure why because its far better than many of the "blockbusters".
I lived in Singapore and it just ran and ran there in a couple of theaters.
Renny Harlin was married to Gena Davis at the time and it all seemed a bit incestuous and it followed the record breaking disaster that was "Cutthroat Island" so I guess nobody in the "biz" wanted to go near it.
This however is a good movie. It flows well the actions scenes are great and Samuel Jackson is wonderful. I'd never heard of him but Craig Bierko makes a great villain and I cant see why he hasnt done more. Yes there are plot holes but no more than the average Tarantino movie.
I would rather sit through a rerun of of this than have to watch Spiderman 3 ever again.
Movie Review: About Twin Towers
Summary: 4 Stars
I saw this movie and it held my attention from the beginning, as well. But, I was very surprised about the statement made about blowing up the Twin Towers and blaming it on the Muslims.
Does anyone remember that? It was near the middle of the movie. Interesting, because the movie was made during the mid-90's and the Towers were actually blown up and it was blamed on Muslims.