Rotten
Frankly, if I had to see either Harlin-Davis movie again, I'd opt for the klutzy unpleasantness of Cutthroat Island over the efficient if equally stupid unpleasantness of this 1996 release.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
The Long Kiss Goodnight
What's forgotten is not always gone.
1996 · 2h 1m · R
Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Renny Harlin
Overview
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.
Director and cast
- Renny Harlin Director
- Geena Davis as Samantha Caine / Charly Baltimore
- Samuel L. Jackson as Mitch Henessey
- Yvonne Zima as Caitlin Caine
- Craig Bierko as Timothy
- Tom Amandes as Hal
- Brian Cox as Dr. Nathan Waldman
- Patrick Malahide as Leland Perkins
- David Morse as Luke / Daedalus
- Joseph McKenna as One-Eyed Jack
- Melina Kanakaredes as Trin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The Long Kiss Goodnight is the fall's best summer movie.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Fresh
Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Rotten
There's an excessive amount of excess -- a mind-numbing plurality of firearm battles, vehicular explosions and brutally frank sexual talk.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
"The Long Kiss Goodnight" has a jokey good time with its outlandish pyrotechnics and offbeat character interplay.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
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