...what makes the film soar—and it does, often—are the performances led by an absolutely commanding Davis. Jackson is no slouch either. This is one of his best turns.

| Original Score: B | Mar 25, 2025

This is almost a poster child for mediocre mid-90s action cinema.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 17, 2025

Just a year after Davis teamed up with director, and then husband, Renny Harlin on the box office flop Cutthroat Island, the two returned with another overegged and overlong action thriller.

| Dec 4, 2024

...a decent-enough actioner trapped within the confines of a wildly overlong misfire.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 13, 2022

This movie is so bad that it needs to be seen to be fathomed.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 10, 2022

You wont be disappointed with cursing, extraordinarily skilled and smart Charly and warm, polite Samantha who, oftentimes, throws a knife around because "chefs do that".

| Original Score: B | Feb 13, 2022

With fast-paced adventure, detonative mayhem, a decent body count, and an unflinching approach to mouthy dialogue, the project is a shining example of an overlooked actioner.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 14, 2020

Despite its often basic action structure, there is enough substance in the script to intrigue those viewers who normally look down on movies loaded-up with blasts, blows and blood.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 11, 2020

The odd couple pairing of Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson is one of the film's best assets, as the duo display terrific comedic chemistry.

| Dec 26, 2018

For once, Shane Black's penchant for Christmas isn't merely window-dressing. He understands the holiday's sometimes wearying grenade-shrapnel shell-shock - and how claustrophobically cloistering with loved ones often can only expand the blast radius.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2017

The surprise and also the disappointment of The Long Kiss Goodnight is much simpler, and less politically inflected: it's badly made, or too close to badly made.

| Original Score: C | Jan 21, 2012

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.

| Oct 25, 2011

The Long Kiss Goodnight is the fall's best summer movie.

| Feb 16, 2011

Hectic stuff with a spectacular finale.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 16, 2011

The kind of movie in which a dozen bad guys with an automatic weapon in each hand couldn't hit a lake if they were standing at the bottom of it, to steal the screenplay's best wiseacre remark.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 16, 2011

Like the heroine, the movie has two personalities that smartly coexist.

| Feb 16, 2011

There's an excessive amount of excess -- a mind-numbing plurality of firearm battles, vehicular explosions and brutally frank sexual talk.

| Feb 16, 2011

"The Long Kiss Goodnight" has a jokey good time with its outlandish pyrotechnics and offbeat character interplay.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2009

The only saving graces are Davis's stripped-down, mean-as-a-wildcat portrayal of the Uzi-toting Charly, and Jackson's engagingly ineffectual turn.

| Jun 24, 2006

I like The Long Kiss Goodnight. I thought it was a lot of fun, and the dialogue was funny and didn't make me wince in pain.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006