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This is my favorite Christmas movie and the action is the best than any other movie out there. Samuel Jackson's role is funny and the dynamics between him and Geena Davis is smooth and very entertaining. The title put me off from buying this video for several years until my best friend encouraged me to watch it one Christmas Eve. She told me to give it 5 minutes and that's all it took for me to be hooked. Thank you, Saundra. Faithe A Price
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The story is very good! As far as the disc, however, it's old technology. It is a square viewing screen. And it's impossible to go to any particular point in the movie. Your only option is the numbered screen selections at the beginning of the movie.
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United States, 1996 U.S. Release Date: 10/11/96 (wide) Running Length: 2:00 MPAA Classification: R (Violence, profanity, brief nudity) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Cast: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko, Brian Cox, David Morse, Yvonne Zima Director: Renny Harlin Producers: Stephanie Austin, Shane Black, and Renny Harlin Screenplay: Shane Black Cinematography: Guilermo Navarro Music: Alan Silvestri U.S. Distributor: New Line Cinema Great premise, terrible execution. How many times have I written that line this year? It was true of too many summer releases, and apparently nothing has changed with the turning of seasons. In the case of The Long Kiss Goodnight, it's especially frustrating, though, because the basic idea is so intriguing -- the perfect background for a top-notch noir thriller. Unfortunately, director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) wasn't at all interested in making a tightly-paced, character-driven movie. What we get instead is exactly what we've come to expect from him -- lots of gunshots, explosions, and general mayhem. When the smoke finally clears for the final credits, we may have had a tolerably good time, but there's no lingering satisfaction. The premise involves that age-old plot staple of soap operas: amnesia. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is the perfect mom. A teacher at a suburban Pittsburgh elementary school, she doesn't allow cursing around the house and dotes on her 8 year old daughter, Caitlin (Yvonne Zima). Samantha doesn't have much of a past, however. She was found on a New Jersey beach eight years ago, and, because of a condition the doctors call "focal retrograde amnesia", she can't remember anything before that. But lacking a personal history doesn't really bother her because her present is so pleasant. She has almost given up on discovering her former identity -- almost, but not quite. Then Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson), the latest in a long line of private investigators she has hired, finds a possible clue. At the same time, Sam is involved in a car wreck, and, as the result of a head injury, her past personae -- a government assassin named Charly Baltimore -- begins to resurface. It would have been fun watching Sam struggle with the emotional and moral consequences of uncovering a sordid past, but, what we get instead is a gallery of villains (Craig Bierko, David Morse, Patrick Malahide) using guns, bombs, and hand grenades to eliminate her. (True to form for a 1996 film, some of the bad guys are government agents.) She shifts effortlessly from Sam to Charly as circumstances demand, never paying a psychological penalty. Maybe I was expecting a little too much from an action film, but the Hitchcockian ideas are so juicy that they deserve deeper exploration. The action, unfortunately, is distressingly routine. There are some nifty sequences, such as when Mitch gets blown out of a window or when Sam does a little surfing on top of an out-of-control, overturned tanker truck. Alas, these are nothing more than visual candy. Missing is the freshness that marked the action sequences in Harlin's introduction to big-budget pyrotechnics, Die Hard 2. Apparently, Harlin did The Long Kiss Goodnight to escape the ugly shadow of Cutthroat Island, one of the biggest duds of last year. (Imagine anyone thinking they could make money with Matthew Modine as an action hero!) His wife, Geena Davis, is again the lead, but for this role she has beefed up a la Sigourney WeaveRead full review
This is my first review, and I'm not one of those people who is going to go into every nuance of a film and provide an entire summary of the movie. I'll try to keep it short and sweet, so here it goes :-) As my title states, this really is one of the best movies I've ever seen. I'm into action flicks, but not just any. I don't particularly care for Transpoter, Die Hard, and the like. Movies need to have a good plot, and above all, heart. The Mummy Returns and Terminator 2 are two of my favorite films, and after seeing The Long Kiss Goodnight, that makes 3. The movie itself is very interesting. As you watch the film, you try to discover, along with Samantha Cain (Geena Davis), who she was before the accident that caused her to experience anterograde amnesia. The events that unfold up to that point are action packed, just as the events that unfold after her epiphany. Specifically, she tries to stop the bad guys before they kill 4,000 people. Samuel L. Jackson plays her investigator-turned-trusty sidekick in this explosive adventure. (I know I didn't give away much as to what the film is actually about, but I did warn you guys. ;-)) So basically, if you like guns, explosions, a great story, and an amazing character (namely, Samantha Cain) with whom you can truly sympathize and empathize, you should really watch this film. I liked it so much that I bought it for my personal movie collection. (Be careful which ebayer you buy it from though. My experience wasn't that pleasant.) Hope this helps!Read full review
Gina Davis plays a small town mother and housewife that has no memory of anything that's happened before the last five years. Samual Jackson stars as a seedy private eye she's hired to find out. Sometimes it's best not to know. Their investigation leads them on a thrill a minute ride in what is one of the best action films I've ever seen. Gripping and violent, while still being funney, The Long Kiss Goodnight is a movie to be enjoyed by both the sexes.
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