The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

• Year: 1996
• Released: 11 Oct 1996
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 3 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116908/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_long_kiss_goodnight
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-long-kiss-goodnight
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
• Runtime: 121 min
• Writer: Shane Black
• Director: Renny Harlin
• Cast: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima
• Keywords: christmas, martial arts, dark comedy, spy, escape,

	6.8/10
	44/100

The Long Kiss Goodnight Storyline

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.

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Where is “The Long Kiss Goodnight 2”????

Before Jason Bourne was an assassin who lost his memory there was Charlie Baltimore and she has no sequels. The way I see it, Geena Davis was ahead of her time. Yes, we’d had “La Femme Nikita” and maybe a few others, but “The Long Kiss Goodnight” was the first female kickass assassin movie I’d ever seen.

This movie went for a tandem that hadn’t quite been explored: White female with Black male. I think it worked fabulously. Samuel Jackson pretty much reprised his same role in “Die Hard with a Vengeance.” In there he was the reluctant and very funny sidekick. In TLKG he was pretty much the same: a low-rent private eye who was thrust into the middle of a federal game of kill or be killed.

Geena Davis, as Charlene “Charlie” Baltimore was perfect if not for her known character types. She’d always played a fragile motherly type: “The Fly,” “Beetlejuice,” and “Thelma & Louise” are a few examples. So she fit nicely as a spy who’d lost her memory and wound up being a small town matriarch known for her cookies and clean life. Then to see her flip and become this foul mouth, unbreakable, vicious assassin was awesome.

My only question is where is “The Long Kiss Goodnight 2”? Worse spy/assassin movies have been given sequels so why not give Charlie Baltimore a franchise?

High octane, bug budget action thriller. Very entertaining nonetheless.

“The Long Kiss Goodnight” is an enjoyable and very cool action thriller, and a career breakthrough for Geena Davis. The plot is very familiar to that of The Bourne Identity but so what. The fight scenes are a real treat for the eyes and the plotline is strong enough to keep you engaged for the 2 hours.

It’s directed with a slick sense of style and avoids most action cliches. Geena Davis is great as an action chick and gets past her usual “good wife” role. Samuel L. Jackson is good as usual as the supporting player. The film’s baddie is overly cheesy though and you can tell what’s going to happen to him.

It breaks away from the usual run-of-the-mill actioners such as Commando and On Deadly Ground and is definetly one of the best actioners in years. Good fun and good popcorn entertainment. 7.4/10.

“Take a deep breath. We’re gonna do the torture thing.”

Like many action flicks, this one starts out with a compelling premise and over the course of the story, deteriorates into mindless and over the top sequences of explosions and pyrotechnics. Following the opening scene I wasn’t sure at one point if we were in a Geena Davis flashback or if the events were taking place in real time. That was when she hit the deer and ran off the road. When Davis’s character Samantha Caine walked over to the suffering animal and broke it’s neck by hand, I just had to shake my head. So much for credibility.

And then it turns into an assassin flick. Actually the set up was pretty good, and the way Samantha begins to restore her memory with bits and pieces of a government black-bag past, it looks like we might have an intriguing mystery on our hands. But things get a little too crazy as things proceed, as Sam joins forces with Samuel L. Jackson to go after her former boss at The Chapter (Patrick Malahide), a munitions dealer (David Morse) and his personal enforcer (Craig Bierko). I have to say, it was gratifying to see David Morse in a role in which he wasn’t a mushy, soft-hearted wuss like so many of his made for TV roles.

It’s not surprising that this film fell off of IMDb’s Top 250 Film List for 1996 and sits with a 6.7 rating as I write this. Those early years of IMDb attracted a lot of clunkers to the line-up, and even though this isn’t one of the worst, it’s certainly not a prize winner. Fans of the principals might find some satisfaction here, but don’t hold your breath any longer than Samantha on the torture rack.