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.
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,
25 Oct 2011
fresh:
The Long Kiss Goodnight is the fall's best summer movie.
– David Ansen,
Newsweek,
16 Feb 2011
fresh:
Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist.
– Richard Corliss,
TIME Magazine,
16 Feb 2011
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,
16 Feb 2011
fresh:
"The Long Kiss Goodnight" has a jokey good time with its outlandish pyrotechnics and offbeat character interplay.