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Rated: R; Genres: Action/Adventure, Crime; With: Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson; Distributor: New Line Cinema
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Watch as small-town schoolteacher Samantha (Geena Davis) recovers from amnesia — that dangerous cinematic condition — and becomes La Femme Nikita. Watch as she and the affably low-rent PI she hires (Samuel L. Jackson) make Houdiniesque escapes from perils that move from expectedly implausible to in-your-face outlandish. (Nothing, not even shrinking them to TV size, can diminish their intensity.) Continue to watch while your jaw keeps dropping until, suddenly, you get it: The Long Kiss Goodnight seems like a send-up of those movies that, like heroin, require bigger and bigger doses to give the same special-effects high. You may then wonder if the director (and Davis' hubby) Renny Harlin intended to make a parody.
Posted Mar 21, 1997
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