ridiculous rating

n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Like many action flicks, this one starts out with a compelling premise and over the course of the story, deteriorates into mindless and over the top sequences of explosions and pyrotechnics. Following the opening scene I wasn't sure at one point if we were in a Geena Davis flashback or if the events were taking place in real time. That was when she hit the deer and ran off the road. When Davis's character Samantha Caine walked over to the suffering animal and broke it's neck by hand, I just had to shake my head. So much for credibility.And then it turns into an assassin flick. Actually the set up was pretty good, and the way Samantha begins to restore her memory with bits and pieces of a government black-bag past, it looks like we might have an intriguing mystery on our hands. But things get a little too crazy as things proceed, as Sam joins forces with Samuel L. Jackson to go after her former boss at The Chapter (Patrick Malahide), a munitions dealer (David Morse) and his personal enforcer (Craig Bierko). I have to say, it was gratifying to see David Morse in a role in which he wasn't a mushy, soft-hearted wuss like so many of his made for TV roles.It's not surprising that this film fell off of IMDb's Top 250 Film List for 1996 and sits with a 6.7 rating as I write this. Those early years of IMDb attracted a lot of clunkers to the line-up, and even though this isn't one of the worst, it's certainly not a prize winner. Fans of the principals might find some satisfaction here, but don't hold your breath any longer than Samantha on the torture rack.

I saw all of the Bourne Identity movies and enjoyed every one of them. However this movie, I am afraid beats all of them. Geena Davis should have received an Oscar for her performance in this one. But how in the world did the makers of this movie allow for the Bourne series to rip off this movie big time.....? Amnesiac assassin comes back with all skills intact and weirds out the ones who trained and equipped her. What in the world was the difference except a better plot? I did not think that Geena Davis could do this but she did. I recently saw a League of Their Own with my wife and She and I enjoyed it and then I saw this one and I was completely surprised with this edge of the seat performance and plot.please comment on this folks...please? I know the writer got 3 million dollars for this but come on fair is fair.Thank you.

Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a suburban teacher married to Hal (Tom Amandes) with a daughter. She suffered amnesia 8 years ago and has been hiring private detectives. However after so many years, she's down to the cheap unscrupulous Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson) and his assistant Trin (Melina Kanakaredes). Parts of her old personality starts to seep through after a car accident. Her name was Charly Baltimore and she was a skilled government assassin. People from her past starts coming back to kill her. Timothy (Craig Bierko) finds out that she's still alive and starts tracking her down as well as many others who would rather have her dead. Mitch uncovers a treasure trove of her past which she uses to call Dr. Nathan Waldman (Brian Cox).I love the idea of this movie. Shane Black has written some interesting hard boiled movies. I'm not as in love with director Renny Harlin's execution. The movie also bogs down with too many bad guys with too complicated of a story. The action is OK and there's lots of it. Davis and Jackson need to have better chemistry. I think Davis is a little too off-putting and angry. This movie has its moments but other movies with similar stories have been done better.

Incredible elements. A Renny Harlin film, which essentially means that, after the film is in the can, either the director or the audience will be a candidate for a rubber room, one or the other. Geena Davis in what (unfortunately) seems to have been her attempt to get back in the game by betting it all on a wacky High Concept script with a wacky director (Sharon Stone did the same with her she-man Italian western, also in my IMDb reviews). And Samuel L. Jackson doing what he did best by this stage in his career -- essentially playing himself. (Cinephiles in the future may argue to whether his character was even needed in the story, but no matter). The film is uneven. But to steal a line from early in the last century, even when it is bad, it is very very good. Davis, a trooper if ever there was one, put everything she has into this project and it shows. There are "bits" here which rank with the very best of the iconic films of old -- such as the set piece in the kitchen where amnesiac Davis does things with a knife not even Ronco ever imagined, and then concludes with the unforgettable line, "Chefs do that!" And the scene where a former student of Davis' accidentally bumps into her when she is in her alternate persona, and reprimands her for smoking .. well, the word "brilliant" does not come close. Highly recommended, warts and all, more fun than a barrel of hammers.