The Long Kiss Goodnight (DVD)

...with a female star kicking the proverbial out of numerous men is bound to appeal to me! This film certainly satisfied all my women-should-rule-the-world leanings, and for the misogynists amongst you, the heroine gets punched, blown up and shot too. THE STORY Geena Davis plays Samantha Caine, a teacher with an 8-year-old daughter and a fiancé. She has amnesia and her life prior to 8 years ago is a complete blank. She does not know who she is or where ...
...two very accomplished actors in the leading roles and as a result we receive a much more interesting and gripping film. Davies and Jackson portray their characters well and help us to empathise with them and understand them more than would otherwise be possible. Due to their abilities we are inevitably more concerned about the welfare of the characters and the film thus becomes more exciting and suspense filled. The screenplay has not been particularly ...

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The Long Kiss Goodnight is hard hitting action from start to finish starring an awesomely sexy Geena Davis and a stylishly cool Samuel L Jackson. Not a box office success in the US, it fared better over here and in Europe and on video and is much underrated and overlooked in the action/thriller genre, mainly due (I think) to its remotely possible story line which drags it away from the well written but frankly unlikely storylines of the likes of ...
...partner in Smalltown, Anywhere, USA. The one thing preventing her from leading a perfect life is 8 years previously she was washed up on a beach, pregnant but with no memories at all of her previous life. She has also pretty much given up hope in finding her true self and only half heartedly employs a dead beat private detective to continue searching for clues to her previous existence. Unfortunately for her, Samuel L Jackson is that man, a down ...

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...about her life prior to the accident. She now works as a teacher and is married with an 8 year old daughter who she was 2 months pregnant with when she had the accident. One night, an escaped convict turns up at her house hell bent on killing her, Samantha manages to fight off the attacker before snapping his neck. From there on she begins having flashbacks about her life where her name was Charley. Curious to know where her killer instinct is coming ...
...past. She soon realises that the middle class school teacher she is today is far from what she used to be… The Long Kiss Goodnight is something that I had never heard of up until a few days ago, it was shown on Channel 5 very late a couple of nights ago, I decided to record it simply based on the preview that was shown to entice the viewers. This was something that I thought I could watch if I was really bored as to be honest it did look pretty ...

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The Long Kiss Goodnight is one of those movies that is incredibly stupid but incredibly enjoyable. Unlike most action films the hero in this one is female and there are loads of huge explosions and stunts. Geena Davis plays a schooltechaer with amnesia. It turns out that she was once a lethal assassin for the CIA and now her formeer employers want her dead. After here memory is jogged she goes on her own crusade against her hunters with the help ...
...title as coolest actor on the planet (TM) with some classic one liners and just frankly being there. Davis meanwhile is quite cool as a hard ass and it's quite refreshing to see a woman as the ass kicker. The villains are all mainly cardboard cut-outs but these are the kind of movie that we give the term 'popcorn' to. They shouldn't be taken seriously and they do entertain. It didn't do that well in the states but fared better in european countries ...

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...and Deep Blue Sea. The Long Kiss Goodnight is no exception. It is an action movie that is different which in a world of Hollywood blockbusters is very unusual. So what makes it different I hear you say, well first of all it has an absolutely brilliant plot but even more so there is a heart behind the characters rather than a flat action hero. The plot revolves around Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) who is a teacher who suffers from Focal Retrograde ...
...trained assassin and spy for the American government. Now her past has caught up with her and Charly slowly emerges to tackle an evil plan that can be traced to the US intelligence community. Excellent plot. The acting is simply incredible and a huge amount of credit goes to Geena Davis. She basically plays two completely different characters, and plays them very well. Not only visually are the two personas different but also their mannerisms are ...

Douglas334 19.04.2001 (20.04.2001) · Read full review
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...or watch it soon. The long kiss goodnight is a story about a schoolteacher Samantha Caine, played by Geena Davis in one of her strnger perfomances who has amnesia and cant remember anything before 8 years ago, when she awoke from a coma pregnant with her daughter Caitlin. All that she has left of her previous life is a filed down key o a safety deposit box she keeps on a charm bracelet. Anyway during the xmas season, she starred as mrs claus in ...
...and is thrown clear of the car. It is here that we first see signs of her double life, when she kills the deer with her bare hands. Later on she does other remarkable things, like slice and dice vegetables in the kitchen, with such skill that she things she must have been a chef in a previous life. Whilst this is going on a private detective by the name of mitch hennesey, played by the excellent Samual L Jackson (in a film that personally think ...

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...it starts to fag after the first hour. It is at about this time that your realise it's not going to get any better. Being quite an old film now, the special effects aren't anything special, although there's quite a good explosion at the end. I found that there was too much repetitive violence for me, and not enough story. I don't mind a bit of action if it moves the story along, but this film just seemed to lurch from one fight to the next. I ...

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...It kept me glued to the screen right the way through. Brilliant story line - family woman (Gina Davis) who has amnesia from a past accident, has no recollection of her past, until she is involved in another accident later on in life, which starts to trigger memories etc. She then decides to trace her past, waking up one morning realising who she really is and what her profession really is - An Assassin (not the house wife/family woman she once thought). ...

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...role usually only offered to the boys. She plays an amnesiac small-town teacher who, after an ex-con turns up on her doorstep with a very big gun, realises (finally) that she used to be a government agent – who carried out the odd assassination here and there. Alongside the permanently pleasing Samuel L. Jackson, this film is all out action, though not in the traditional sense. This is a tongue-in-cheek action thriller with a killer (in every ...

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...believable as a former spy. The only down fall of the film is that some of the action scenes, that do seem a bit far fetched to fit in. However, great perfromances from Davis and Jackson make it a really good watch. The best bit has to be Davis's transformation from frumpy wife to sexy, bleached spy. ...

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