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The Long Kiss GoodNight

1996

Renny Harlin

Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko ...

5.1

5,908

Action. Thriller 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	John Ferguson Radio Times	"This vehicle for Geena Davis remains one of the loudest, sassiest and most entertaining action blockbusters of the 1990s (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"I liked it in the same way I might like an arcade game: It holds your attention until you run out of quarters, and then you wander away without giving it another thought (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Black's screenplay is mean-spirited, but it earns its keep with sharp, sarcastic dialogue and ingenious ways of setting up this story."	POS
United Kingdom	David Eimer Empire	"Jackson is the perfect sidekick, allowing Davis to show that she can be a convincing action heroine (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Tony Sokol Den of Geek	"A fast-paced adventure movie with a quick wit, an accelerating pace, famous locations, and a female hero that performs too many impossible physical feats."	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Davis and her director and husband, Renny Harlin, recover from their Cutthroat Island fiasco in grand style"	POS
United Kingdom	Almar Haflidason BBC	"[It] was ahead of its time, and remains one of the best action films of the 90s (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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