Geena Davis almost makes Bond look like a wimp
Posted: June 25th, 2012, 8:58 am
Spoiler
If I hadn't been on holiday I''d have missed the film The Long Kiss Goodbye. In fact I missed the important first half an hour, due to the England-Italy football match in the European Championship quarter finals which Italy won on penalties. So I was playing catch up. I was interested in it at first because I was impressed by Davis in the swashbuckling pirate movie Cut Throat Island. In fact I wouldn't be surrpised if Maureen O'Hara in her pomp would have loved a role like that.
However, back to the film TLKG, Davis appeared a gentle female, suffering from a long term lost of memory, who finds herself involved with spies, when I first started watching the film. However, as I watched it, I discovered Davis was a ruthless assassin for an American Intelligence service, who was believed to have been killed by her own people. However, she survived but with her memory gone. In those wilderness years she has a daughter, however, her assassins have discovered she's alive and come after her again.
She's captured and tortured. Tied to some sort of propeller, she's dipped into freezing cold water. However, after the first dip her memory returns, then after the second dip, she's got one hand free and kills her torturer. Helped by side kick Samuel S Jackson, she goes after the men trying to kill her.
2 things I felt about the film. One-is no matter how dangerous the dangerous situations they found themselves in, I felt neither Davis or Jackson would die the film. The other thing was that when Davis found herself in impossible situations and facing death, she always had the self confidence she'd escape.
I like the fact about the film, where Davis the ruthless assassin has to come to terms with her alter ego. who's a loving mother. She may to have been married, but as I said I missed the first half an hour. I also like the fact that Davis' one time boss, who's trying to kill her was played by British character Patrick Malahide. In the UK Patrick is still best known for the early role of Sargeant Chisolm in the Dennis Waterman/George Cole comedy drama series Minder. He was also in Helen Mirren's Emmy winning Elizabeth 1st
It's a pity there was no sequels of The Long Kiss Goodbye
If I hadn't been on holiday I''d have missed the film The Long Kiss Goodbye. In fact I missed the important first half an hour, due to the England-Italy football match in the European Championship quarter finals which Italy won on penalties. So I was playing catch up. I was interested in it at first because I was impressed by Davis in the swashbuckling pirate movie Cut Throat Island. In fact I wouldn't be surrpised if Maureen O'Hara in her pomp would have loved a role like that.
However, back to the film TLKG, Davis appeared a gentle female, suffering from a long term lost of memory, who finds herself involved with spies, when I first started watching the film. However, as I watched it, I discovered Davis was a ruthless assassin for an American Intelligence service, who was believed to have been killed by her own people. However, she survived but with her memory gone. In those wilderness years she has a daughter, however, her assassins have discovered she's alive and come after her again.
She's captured and tortured. Tied to some sort of propeller, she's dipped into freezing cold water. However, after the first dip her memory returns, then after the second dip, she's got one hand free and kills her torturer. Helped by side kick Samuel S Jackson, she goes after the men trying to kill her.
2 things I felt about the film. One-is no matter how dangerous the dangerous situations they found themselves in, I felt neither Davis or Jackson would die the film. The other thing was that when Davis found herself in impossible situations and facing death, she always had the self confidence she'd escape.
I like the fact about the film, where Davis the ruthless assassin has to come to terms with her alter ego. who's a loving mother. She may to have been married, but as I said I missed the first half an hour. I also like the fact that Davis' one time boss, who's trying to kill her was played by British character Patrick Malahide. In the UK Patrick is still best known for the early role of Sargeant Chisolm in the Dennis Waterman/George Cole comedy drama series Minder. He was also in Helen Mirren's Emmy winning Elizabeth 1st
It's a pity there was no sequels of The Long Kiss Goodbye