Samuel L Jackson’s low-rent private eye pairs up with Davis’s schoolteacher when her former assassin identity starts violently reemerging in this 90s action thriller
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It’s an inane premise: an amnesiac schoolteacher discovers she used to be an assassin, and must use her newly remembered skills to stop a terrorist plot in order to save her daughter. But The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 90s action movie, and inane premises are par for the course. In fact, despite significantly underperforming at the box office and being largely omitted from the canon, much of Renny Harlin’s 1996 film epitomises what was so great about this golden era of action cinema.
Shane Black was best known for writing Lethal Weapon and The Last Boy Scout when he sold this script for a record US$4m, and it delivers his trademark combination of impressive action set pieces and sharp dialogue. It doesn’t matter that by the end, the plot is almost nonsensical – something about a government conspiracy at Niagara Falls? – because by this point we are completely invested in the survival of our two central characters.
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