Why Aren't You Watching The Long Kiss Goodnight?

[Invisible Queen]

It's another flimsily cobbled together action movie set during Christmas in which an unlikely pair are forced to work together. Another conspiratorial thriller in which an ordinary dude finds out he's an amnesiac counter-assassin government agent. Hilarity and explosions ensue.

But the counter-assassin is a woman and the other guy is Samuel L Jackson. That alone should set it apart.

It's really a character driven drama disguised as a light action movie. Jackson plays a thoroughly beaten, loser, low rent private investigator slash thug. (Although just the fact that he's not playing Samuel L "Motherfucking" Jackson is an improvement over his recent roles.) Geena Davis is at conflict with her own past, and later on in conflict with another past of her own . . . well, it's a little complicated. But they play off each other and with each other like the best of buddy movie buddies.

Also there is the line "The dog, Alice. He and my appetite are mutually exclusive. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you, there is nothing in there worth more than an hour's attention, and whatever he's trying to dislodge, is either gone for good, or there to stay."

Thank me later, watch it now. :)

[Magus]

Yes, that Brian Cox line is pretty memorable.

Ironically, however, even though it is called The Long Kiss Goodnight, I in fact thought this movie was too long. I remember being bored at times, though it ramped up for the finale. They should've cut some of it down to size. But anyway, it's at least as good an action movie as any of the others mid-'90s, and better than some by far.

As far as advertisement goes, though, you can't go wrong with a movie poster of Samuel L. Jackson holding a giant revolver.