Geena Davis is absolutely convincing in this awesome role!
My elder brother reccommended this movie, and after hearing about it I ran to rent it--I have a thing for assassins.
An old plot--Dangerous Person gets Amnesia, Bad Guys out to get him, and he Doesn't Know Why. But this movie didn't taste at all like coffee grounds that have been run through a second time, like most modern movies with old, hackneyed plots. The way the plot twists and turns keeps you guessing at every point, anything could happen! For once, a movie in which I could not predict most of what happened. I truly enjoyed that--and I think you will to.
In this movie, Samantha Cane wakes up pregnant and remembering nothing. She has the child--a lovely girl who she adores--and she finds a fiance. Everything appears normal--though every now and again she does some odd thing that makes everyone's eyebrows shoot up and go "Huh? How the hell did she do that?" Oh, and did I mention she is gorgeous with long, red hair?
However, then a two-bit private eye finds a lead into her past, and after she is attacked in her home by an escaped convict, who she manages to dispatch rather nicely while hyper-ventilating [that was the only annoying part--she kept making this really obnoxious noise during her "Samantha's panicking" scenes--and there were quite a few]. She goes with Mitch [Samuel L. Jackson] on a wild goose chase to find her "old fiance." However, once she tracks him down the bullets really start flying, and from then on its a miniature armageden. Very well done, lovely movie, great character done by Davis.
However, there is one thing I must mention--its rated R for a reason. My mom happened to be in the room while we watched this film, and I think she wishes she hadn't been. There is no sex--though plenty of anal humor and comments. The violence, while of course present, I wouldn't say was excessive--though there was a high body count and lots of blood. No one gets turned inside out, its mostly "clean" killing--with a gun. But it includes Samuel L. Jackson--and we all know he has a reputation to live up to--a reputation to cuss with every other word. He lives up to it. And most of the other stars try their hardest to compete with him. So, this is not one of those R movies that its really hard to discover why they rated it that--and I have to say that this is not one I'd admit kids to. Yes, I know, that should go without saying--but it doesnt. Not in today's america.
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