The Long Kiss Goodnight | | Cast : | Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson | | Director : | Renny Harlin | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | October 11, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | February 08, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 23, 2005 | | Summary | CHEFS DO THAT! | Content
 | Once in a while you happen to stumble across a great movie. The cover looked interesting, so I figured I'd rent it. I'm really happy I saw this movie! I thought the story was great, there was a lot of action from beginning to end, and the acting was great, especially from Geena Davis. I love the part when she's looking in the mirror, and her image slits her throat, that was great! This movie is action-packed! Highly recommended! |
| Rating | | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | Compatible careers: schoolteacher - spy | Content
| Up front I have to say this is one of my favorite action adventure female lead movies. Geena Davis does a great job as schoolteacher Samantha Caine who is trying to find out who she is because she only remembers the last eight years of her life starting when she woke up pregnant on the beach in New Jersey.
She is in a car accident and starts to have glimmers of a past. Suddenly she knows how to use knives and thinks she might have been a chef. But theres a lot more going on and it's darker and more dangerous than she ever thought her past would be.
The characters are great and well cast. If you watch you can actually see the transistion from Samantha to Charly in her eyes and facial muscles. That's pretty good acting. The only things that put me off was that the swearing especially by Charly was so totally inappropriate. Not that swearing wasn't called for but it's not how women swear -- there are appropriate derivations of the common male swearing.
It's a movie that's not totally believable but if you're willing to suspend belief it's fun ride from discovery to gun battles to final confrontation and end. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 28, 2005 | | Summary | Baby Boom | Content
| There are two ways to take this movie. The first is to sit stupefied at the plot holes, improbable kinetics, life-saving coincidences and stock plot devices. The second is just to enjoy the ride: Geena Davis with guns and knives, Samuel L. Jackson as the low humor relief, and an ending action sequence so unlikely, so over the top, that you are forced to conclude that the movie is a parody of the action genre.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 16, 2005 | | Summary | Great Action and Intrigue, well done! | Content
| This movie has an excellent cast, great sense of danger, suspense, and action. One of the better movies to come out of the 90's slew of action suspense films!
An ordinary woman discovers that her life was not always ordinary in this action thriller. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a typical, well-mannered single mother working as a schoolteacher when she isn't looking after her children. Nothing on the surface would seem to be remarkable about Samantha's life, but every once in a while she has vague memories and unexplained impulses that don't add up with her current life experience; she has scars but no idea of how they got there, she suddenly displays a deadly talent for knife-throwing while chopping vegetables for dinner, and when she sees a deer, she suddenly attacks it with her bare hands.
When an auto accident and a television news broadcast stirs some more uncomfortable memories, Samantha hires private investigator Mitch Hennessey (Samuel L. Jackson) to look into her past and see what he can find. Mitch learns that Samantha isn't really Samantha after all - her name is Charley and she used to be a professional assassin with a secret government intelligence program.
After a severe head injury, Charley developed a case of amnesia, and in time she developed her new personality as Samantha. However, her old boss has kept tabs on her, and now that it looks as if the old Charley is starting to come out again, he sends a pair of hit men after her to see to it that she doesn't remember anything else; soon Samantha and Mitch are on the run, trying to outdistance the killers as they get to the bottom of Charley's secret life.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 15, 2005 | | Summary | First rate action thriller! | Content
| In the spirit of full disclosure I should state that Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are two of my favorite actors. They are not only wonderful at their craft, but they are very cool people.
That said, I must say that I REALLY like this movie. Geena Davis plays a woman who in spite of years of amnesia has carved out a happy life in a small town as a teacher. She has a delightful young daughter and a kind and loving boyfriend. Still, she wants to know who she was in her past and has hired a rather low rent private investigator ( Samuel L. Jackson ).
After eight years, bits and pieces of her former self begin to resurface and her private eye finally develops some information that may be helpful in her quest. When these two characters hook up ( professionally ) the excitement begins. As the action heats up, more and more of Davis's old self come to the fore and it becomes stunningly obvious that her previous career could not have been more different than that of an elementary school teacher.
It's no easy task to have two characters with a distant virtually non existent relationship to one of profound friendship within the framework of a two hour film, but director Renny Harlin has skillfully worked with these two gifted actors and done just that. This bond is forged through increasingly violent and spectacular scenes that are masterfully choreographed.
Elements of this films story line are positively eerie given the tragedy of 9/ 11 and the events that have followed. The very worst sort of rumors that surfaced in the wake of that horrific day are given a credible voice in this film. I'm not saying that I ( or anyone else ) should believe these paranoid fables, but in the context of the film, there is a degree of believability.
The supporting cast is uniformly first rate. Craig Bierko's villain with a friendly, boy next door demeanor is memorable. David Morse brings a great deal of authority to his limited screen time as does the almost ubiquitous Brian Cox. But the film's weight rests on the shoulders of Davis and Jackson. Their characters must have real substance or else the whole film would collapse. At the time of the movie's release critics weren't terribly kind. Folks, they were wrong. This one of those rare films that seem to get better with every viewing. There is an enormous amount of talent at work in The Long Kiss Goodnight. Sit back, let film do the driving, and enjoy. |
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