The Long Kiss Goodnight Reviewed in January 2012 / Click Here to
Comment Written on the occasion of Geena Davis's 56th birthday.
Director: Renny Harlin. Cast: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson,
Craig Bierko, Yvonne Zima, Tom Amandes, Brian Cox, Joseph
McKenna, David Morse, Melina Kanakaredes, G.D. Spradlin, Patrick
Malahide, Alan North, Dan Warry-Smith, Sharon Washington, Edwin
Hodge. Screenplay: Shane Black. Twitter Capsule: Bold idea
strains with jokey tone. Real assassin is Harlin's helpless
direction. Also, who killed Geena?  Photo © 1996 New Line Cinema
The Long Kiss Goodnight runs on two ambitions. One is to deliver
unto the multiplex our first female, sharp-shooting, bomb-
building, ice-skating, death-dealing, school-teaching ninja
assassin. Probably you could strike any one of those adjectives
and "first" would still hold; if you take out "female," you've
still got "ice-skating" and "school-teaching" hanging around as
kickers. The other ambition is to make us giggle—not outright
laugh, but giggle. The sec