Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.
A woman suffering from amnesia begins to recover her memories after trouble from her past finds her again.
I am not a big Geena Davis fan. She doesn&#39;t really do it for me. But this movie is terrific, and she is terrific in it.<br/><br/>I&#39;m always pleased when I encounter films which are based on an idea which is not run of the mill, which I haven&#39;t seen variations of dozens of times in other movies. And here, the central conceit - that an absolutely deadly assassin, turned into an utterly conventional homemaker wife and mother by amnesia, is reawakened by her old organisation, with violent results - is a pleasingly different variation on a familiar theme.<br/><br/>Assisted by a seedy, down at heel PI played by Samuel L Jackson (cast partly against type), housewife/assassin Sam/Charly wreaks various species of havoc on those responsible for turning her life upside down in a number of pleasing set pieces.<br/><br/>The action is great, the story is great, the effects are great and the performances are great. This is highly recommended.
I know that most action movies follow some sort of formula, but The Long Kiss Goodnight takes the formula and does what Coke did with their formula in the 80s… tried to improve upon it, and just made it worse.<br/><br/>I did see this on cable, so there was some cutting and swear-bleeping involved, but I really think that adding all of what they took out could possibly have made this a better film. I was all excited to see it too… saw the listing in the TV guide, made myself a bowl of popcorn, and curled up in front of the TV waiting to be entertained. Disappointment was achieved not even 10 minutes into the movie. It seemed to take forever to &quot;set up&quot; the plot, cutting 4 or 5 scenes at the beginning of the film right before you find out what a character is about, or what his motivation is. The Long Kiss Goodnight seems to revel in making you believe that a character is a good guy, only to reveal very shortly thereafter that he indeed is a bad guy, or vice versa.<br/><br/>And the clichés! If I might borrow a phrase from my Jewish friends, oy vey. Yet another film that reveals that one hit to the head results in amnesia, and another gets your memory back. (Has a real-life amnesia sufferer ever tried this in real life? I wonder if it works…) And of course, the frumpy schoolteacher Davis was at the beginning of the movie was in stark contrast to the CIA-trained hit-woman she used to be. As clearly evidenced by her decision to cut her hair and dye it blonde. (I know that the dramatic hair changing scene always means transformation… see also &quot;The Legend Of Billie Jean&quot;, or &quot;The Banger Sisters&quot; or &quot;Sleeping With The Enemy&quot; or… well, you see where I&#39;m going with this) More cliché… the ever-present Dirty Harry-type line spoken right into the camera just before shooting someone; the torture scene featuring a camisole-and-panties-clad Geena Davis (who obviously had undergone rigorous weight-training before filming) strapped seductively to a water wheel; the slow-motion (and again &quot;wet&quot;) Geena Davis and Sam Jackson emerging from the frozen pond, alive! I have long been an admirer of both Davis and Jackson… as far as I&#39;m concerned, Geena has always made good decisions in her roles, and Jackson always manages to make himself look like he&#39;s better than some of the bad movies he&#39;s been in. I would swear, at times, Davis seems to be well aware of the fact that a certain line or scene she&#39;s doing is pure schlock, but thinks maybe she can make it better with her fine performance. Wrong, Geena. This was just bad material that the finest actor could not make look better.<br/><br/>All in all, don&#39;t waste your time with this one. Unless you;re one of those people who LIKES to watch bad movies with your friends and just laugh at how bad they are. In that case, get this DVD as soon as you can!!!
The problem with this movie is the problem with most Renny Harlin movies: There's an excessive amount of excess – a mind-numbing plurality of firearm battles, vehicular explosions and brutally frank sexual talk.
The Long Kiss Goodnight was filmed from a script by American screenwriter Shane Black. The &quot;long kiss goodnight&quot; is a euphemism for death. In the opening narration, when Samantha (<a href="/name/nm0000133/">Geena Davis</a>) is explaining that the only thing she knows about her former self is a name, Charlene, she says that she has kissed Charlene goodnight. &quot;Focal retrograde amnesia&quot;, a type of amnesia where memory for past events and personal information is lost, while the ability to remember new events is spared. Filming took place at multiple locations in the province of Ontario, Canada, e.g., Collingwood, Milton, Hamilton, Markham, Uxbridge, Toronto, and Niagara Falls. Some scenes were filmed at the Windemere House, a resort in Muskoka, Ontario, but when the resort burned down during the filming, they reshot the scenes at another resort, Milford Manor in Milton (Daedalus&#39; hideout). The beginning scenes were shot in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. Other filming locations in the U.S. included Atlantic City in New Jersey, the Chicago Pier, and Linnwood, Washington. It was a CIA plan to detonate a chemical bomb in downtown Niagara Falls on Christmas Eve, killing 4,000 civilians and then blaming Islamic terrorists in order to increase their funding and powers. As Timothy (<a href="/name/nm0081572/">Craig Bierko</a>) is locking Samantha/Charlene/Charly and her daughter Caitlin (<a href="/name/nm0956531/">Yvonne Zima</a>) in the freezer, Charly reveals that he is Caitlin&#39;s father. Nathan Waldman (<a href="/name/nm0004051/">Brian Cox</a>) was drowned at the mill, in the same &quot;torture thingy&quot; that Daedalus (<a href="/name/nm0001556/">David Morse</a>) was using on Samantha/Charley. She unties herself and gets the pistol from his pants while they&#39;re both under water.Charly saves the town from the bomb, saves Caitlin, and they both survive the explosion. Hennesey (<a href="/name/nm0000168/">Samuel L. Jackson</a>) becomes famous for his role in saving the town, goes on the Larry King Show, and is seen by his son and wife, her jaw dropped about a foot-and-a-half. The president asks Charly to return to governmental duty, but she refuses and goes back to being just Sam. In the final scene, however, she can&#39;t help from throwing a knife into a log where a cricket was chirping too loudly. One movie recommended by viewers who have seen The Long Kiss Goodnight is <a href="/title/tt0258463/">The Bourne Identity (2002)</a> (2002), in which an amnesic who was pulled out of the water with bullets in his back searches for clues to his identity. His story is continued in two sequels, <a href="/title/tt0372183/">The Bourne Supremacy (2004)</a> (2004) and <a href="/title/tt0440963/">The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)</a> (2007). For those who appreciate the mixture of high-octane action scenes with witty dialogue, many other action movies written by <a href="/name/nm0000948/">Shane Black</a> or produced by <a href="/name/nm0005428/">Joel Silver</a> are highly recommended, such as <a href="/title/tt0093409/">Lethal Weapon (1987)</a> (and its three sequels), <a href="/title/tt0102266/">The Last Boy Scout (1991)</a>, and <a href="/title/tt0107362/">Last Action Hero (1993)</a> (which effectively parodies the genre). <a href="/title/tt0095016/">Die Hard (1988)</a> can be considered the blueprint for this genre of movies, so this movie and its three sequels are also preferred viewing for fans of The Long Kiss Goodnight.
a5c7b9f00b
Sentiments prouvants full movie 720p downloadDownload hindi movie Claymorethe Stranger Adventures hindi dubbed free downloadUberstein - Operation Wunderwaffe in hindi downloadMidnight Run movie download hd2 Fast 2 Furious telugu full movie downloadPower Rangers Dino Charge download movie freethe No Way Out full movie in hindi free download hdEpisode 2.9 telugu full movie downloadChasin' You Around full movie in hindi free download hd 1080p