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yourmelodi

omg a terrible movie.

12 years 4 months ago

mrjeels

Movie is interesting until it becomes too action oriented. Once the dialogue stops it becomes a below average/run of the mill action film.

9 years 6 months ago

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 5 months ago

Ninjagodzilla

Great flick. Geena Davis is the Proto Angelina Jolie.

12 years ago

Forzelius

Ahead of its time a little. Shane Black's dialogue has always felt suitable for the 2000s for some reason and it was a little out of place in the 90s. Still enjoyed it and it was the strongest element in the movie by far. Creepily predicting regarding the terrorist plot.

5 years 10 months ago

MMDan

"You can't kill me motherfuckers!"

7 years 11 months ago

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 4 months ago