The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Memorable, crazy movie

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

A woman suffering from amnesia begins to recover her memories after trouble from her past finds her again. The Long Kiss Goodnight is the perfect example of how critics are wrong on reviewing action movies since this is one of the most underrated ones for sure. First of all the action is terrific, Geena Davis gives a hell of a perfomance as Samantha and Samuel L. Jackson is great as always and even tho it might have a close resemblance to Die Hard or Lethal Weapon it deserves to be on that damn list next to those movies and as for Harlin himself? He has made some terrible films i'll agree on that but films like Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Cliffhanger and The Long Kiss Goodnight deserve another fair watch especially for action movie fans around the globe. (A+)

The Long Kiss GoodnightThe best gift you can give an assassin at Christmas is a contract on a cheating spouse.Regrettably, the killer in this action movie has forgotten who she is.When a holiday head injury jogs memories of her being a CIA assassin, mild-mannered schoolteacher Samantha (Geena Davis) hires a private detective (Samuel L. Jackson) to help her uncover this mysterious past she has forgotten.It's not long until the agent who tried to kill her the first time comes to finish the job that Sam recalls her final mission to frame Islamic terrorists for a CIA bombing of Niagara Falls.With its breakneck action sequences, slick dialogue and hilarious performance from Sam Jackson, this highly underrated buddy picture from 1996 is also a neglected Christmas movie that deserves a seat at the yuletide action movie table. Besides, with all of the seasonal suicides Christmas is a slow time for hit-men.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

I saw all of the Bourne Identity movies and enjoyed every one of them. However this movie, I am afraid beats all of them. Geena Davis should have received an Oscar for her performance in this one. But how in the world did the makers of this movie allow for the Bourne series to rip off this movie big time.....? Amnesiac assassin comes back with all skills intact and weirds out the ones who trained and equipped her. What in the world was the difference except a better plot? I did not think that Geena Davis could do this but she did. I recently saw a League of Their Own with my wife and She and I enjoyed it and then I saw this one and I was completely surprised with this edge of the seat performance and plot.please comment on this folks...please? I know the writer got 3 million dollars for this but come on fair is fair.Thank you.

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 more action in this film than in in any Bruce Willis action flick. Director Renny Harlin, who also directed Die Hard 2: Die Harder, learned and outdid himself. Jackson and Davis really meshed as co-stars and made the film that much more enjoyable. If you like you action fast and hot, then this is a not-to-be-missed adventure.