Interesting events begin with the life of a woman who lives with her daughter in Good and happy life. This mother has some memory loss and her life is turned upside down when she learns that she is a professional secret killer. This is where the excitement begins, where a group of people who want to conquer and destroy the world will fight.
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.
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.
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.
