Review of The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) by Dean M — 29 May 2011

This action film is almost familiar to 1988's Die Hard because of the Christmas Eve. Geena Davis's performance and her action sequences are cool as a schoolteacher turned tough lethal government assassin after she returned from suffering her amnesia. She looks great in her underwear and the pacing is real! And with Samuel L. Jackson come off as nostalgically genuine and charming.

There are some real laugh out loud moments in this movie, though, and there's a sense of joy in the script and the performances, as if they were having a good time. Director Renny Harlin knows how to construct action scenes, check out the train station scene and a tanker on the run heart pumper. But it's with Shane Black's screenplay that the film primarily entertains.