The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

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   senorroboto

   It's definitely uneven and even mawkish at times, but the smart dialogue from Shane Black and cast carry it. Whatever failures the movie has, it seems self-aware of them. 10 years 5 months ago
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   MMDan

   "You can't kill me motherfuckers!" 8 years ago
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   Siskoid

   The Long Kiss Goodnight started out a little rough for me because the opening credits give the (early) game away. So I won't hide it here: Geena Davis is a Black Widow type who lost her memory some years ago, bought into her cover, and is both a school teacher and a mom in a small town. Then she starts to remember and takes off with Samuel Jackson on a road trip that puts her in the crosshairs of her old employers who are now up to some nefarious tricks. It's a comedy with a lot of people getting killed, with its closest tonal analog Die Hard, as it also happens around Christmas time (oh, Shane Black wrote this? explains it). If the initial surprises were already spoiled, I got more and more into the over-the-top action pieces and Davis' journey as a spy who has to deal with years of "someone else's" baggage, and ended up a fan of it. Davis, as usual, can easily play the sweetheart, but has a lot of fun as the damaged, lethal badass, and the bad guys are so evil, you want them to die horribly. (Not-really-a-spoiler: They will.) While there is some boring shoot'em ups early on, the injection of humor means a lot of the action is more novel and entertaining than that (give or take a couple of dodgy effects shots). It's also got good music and I love a slushy, wintry genre movie. 1 year 7 months ago

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