The Long Kiss Goodnight
The Long Kiss Goodnight
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.
Vincent Reggiannini reviewedJuly 5, 2025
This movie either works for you, or it doesn’t. I love it. Geena Davis’ Charlie Baltimore is more satire than serious, yet her performance resonates with curious effectiveness. Charlie Baltimore is crass, flippant, and over-the-top, yet she is funny, shocking and strangely appealing.
Samuel Jackson is, well, Samuel Jackson - but this role came before most of his more well-known roles. He’s the real comic relief in this boilerplate spy shoot ‘em up.
Brian Cox is the cynical, seen-it-all brains behind Charlie Baltimore’s unexpected disappeared, and revival.
The “bad guys” are expectedly cookie-cutter, and over-the-top, and the ending is straight out of the boiler-plate Hollywood scripts but it’s a comic book romp that works for me. It’s fun, and Davis is great in this role that was way out of her range.