The Long Kiss Goodnight
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Movie Reviews of The Long Kiss Goodnight
Movie Review: I wish I could give it ten stars
Summary: 5 Stars
I LOVE THIS MOVIE ! ! ! I saw this movie a long time ago and fell in love. Gina Davis as Charlie Baltimore was TERRIFIC ! I like the fact that all the scenes are not over the top nor unbelievable. To this day I drink my shots just like C.B. did in the hotel scene. Samuel Jackson adds more flavor as a down and out private eye. This movie will and should be considred a cult classic !Movie Review: A Holiday Classic? You bet!
Summary: 4 Stars
Well, kind of. In my twisted household anyway. This is one non-stop, action-packed thriller from beginning to end. Completely over-the-top - some of the torture scenes make you think of the real oldies with Little Nell and the railroad track, but boy is it fun. Davis is truly cool here: funny and wide-eyed one minute, sleek and vicious the next. Jackson is great as her somewhat unwilling cohort and the two have a great chemistry. Bierko is SO evil he should have a mustache to twist. Fun, very fun. All played out against a Christmas backdrop mind you. A good triple feature with Die Hard and The Bells of St. Mary's. (LOL) A must have for action freaks! WAY TOO MUCH FUN!!!!!!Movie Review: KISSES TO KILL
Summary: 5 Stars
I think THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT is a great film. It never lets up in its action, and director Renny Harlin pilots a great cast with superb action scenes, explosions, car chases, you name it---this one cooks!
Geena Davis is fabulous as Samantha Caine, a schoolteacher with amnesia, not realizing she was a CIA assassin prior to an injury which gave her the amnesia. She's now settled in with a nice lover and a lovely little girl.
Enter Samuel L. Jackson as the pI who is trying to help her find out who she was before.
Christmas is coming, and Geena is spied on a t.v. news story as she played Mrs. Claus in a Christmas parade.
From that point on, the chase is on and the action never lets up! Davis and Jackson are great in their roles with fine support from Craig Bierko (Sour Grapes, Thirteenth Floor) as the handsome but deadly Timothy; David Morse in a brief role as Davis' former fiance(?); and Brian Cox as a man who knows who Davis really is.
The climax is breathtaking, and this is one of the best action movies made in the past ten years! As contrived and overblown as it may seem, it still rocks!!!
Movie Review: Long Kiss Just Alright
Summary: 3 Stars
While watching this film I was struck at how many other films seemed to influence this one (La Femme Nikita, Die Hard, True Lies, Lethal Weapon, and probably Pulp Fiction ergo the prescence of Samuel L. Jackson). Alas, the whole is not the sum of these parts. Geena Davis is credible in her role of schooolteacher with amnesia whose prior life as CIA assassin slowly emerges at the most inappropriate time. Jackson gives fine support, as usual. The movie is rarely boring. That said the plot is convoluted at times. The stuntwork and special effects are good but they seem more showy and noisy and don't seem to service the plot. On a final note, the plot hatched by the CIA renegades in the film involves staging a massacre so that they can get more funding and then blame it on the Arabs. In light of 9/11 it would be questionable as to whether this film should be shown considering that this film is essentially mind candy. Movie Review: politically correct Hollywood garbage
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't hold spy thrillers to high standards of plausibility, but there are limits beyond which politically correct Hollywood impulses make these productions painful to watch. Apparently Arabs are simply unacceptable villains as terrorists--who could imagine Arabs indulging in terror? The CIA (or its nameless intelligence agency stand-in) is at the top of the Hollywood list, however (followed by neo-Nazis and businessmen). Except it's the CIA from an alternate universe: all-knowing, all-competent. This movie manages to up the P.C. a notch beyond the others, however. Not only is the CIA going to kill thousands in Niagara Falls in a poison gas attack to help it lobby for a budget increase, it's going to leave the body of an innocent Arab at the scene for a scapegoat. You would think that they would be too embarrassed to keep this in circulation after 9/11, but being P.C. means never having to say you're sorry.