Wolff rating: FAIR
Plot summary: Suzy Homemaker with amnesia gets conked on the head to reveal a past as a professional killer.
Biased, pithy comments: Imagine you're a movie executive with millions of dollars on leverage. You're looking for a high-budget action thriller starring known people. A filmmaker rolls into your office with this new concept starring Geena Davis! Wow! Geena Davis! This guy says he's made action movies before, and the one-sentence summary sounds kinda like ``La Femme Nikkita'' only without that weird French stuff. Neat! And Geena Davis! Unfortunately, you haven't heard about ``Cutthroat Island'', the largest-losing movie ever, also made by Renny Harlin and starring Geena Davis. (Why Davis? Well, Davis was Harlin's wife at the time.) Doh! Still, it isn't all a loss. With scripting from a guy like Shane Black, responsible for the mostly-miss ``Last Action Hero'' and mostly-hit ``The Last Boyscout'', you know it's going to have action sequences that will make you say, ``Gee, I've never seen a car explode quite that way before.'' There are about 40 minutes in the middle where this movie really takes off, right about the time Suzy Homemaker turns into Suzy I-Used-To-Kill-For-The-CIA. Davis makes an excellent housemom, the bad guys not really a problem, but the situations and pacing give you time to ask yourself, ``What the heck is going on here?'' I'd say you can probably give this one a miss unless you, like Harlin (apparently, given the content of this and ``Cutthroat''), like to see Geena Davis tied up dressed only in her skivvies.
How many times I have seen it: x1
Starring: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Malahide, Craig Bierko
Directed by: Renny Harlin