Long kiss goodnight movie#

Die Hard 2 was a huge hit and Ford Fairlane starred Andrew Dice Clay. Harlin previously directed The Adventures of Ford Fairlane and Die Hard 2 which were edited simultaneously and released just a week apart. Davis played a pirate in the previous year’s Cutthroat Island.

Long kiss goodnight movie#

The movie references the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and Samantha Caine’s transformation into the regrettably-named Charly Baltimore can be seen as an allusion to sleeper-agent multiple personality assassins.ġ996’s The Long Kiss Goodnight was the second movie in a row that director Renny Harlin made with his then-wife Geena Davis. Underneath it is an allegory to the growing paranoiac conspiracy theories that are now flooding into the mainstream. On the surface, The Long Kiss Goodnight is a fast-paced adventure movie with a quick wit, an accelerating pace, famous locations, and a female hero that performs too many impossible physical feats. He also expanded on the naturalistic acting styles in Barry Levinson’s conversational film Diner that let everyday small talk happen while allowing the plot to move along as it might. Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs brought a sense of low-budget high-octane fun and breakaway banter back into the movies. Increasingly influenced by music videos, a lot of the art showed dark overtones, in bright colors and quick cuts. The nineties was an adventurous time for filmmaking.

I was more than surprised at how prescient a movie it was at the time.

I inexplicably missed the original when it came out and dismissed it as just another action flick. There are rumors and rumors of rumors that a sequel to Renny Harlin’s The Long Kiss Goodnight is in the works.