The Lurita Kiss Good Night
When it comes to amnesia, Geena Davis has nothing on Lurita Doan. She can’t remember anything.
Amnesiac Assassin: The Long Kiss Good Night v. The Bourne Identity
Two amnesiac assassins. One pose. Only one can win.
There is a little-known, dimly-lit recess in the bowels of the CIA where they train super-powered, tougher-than-nails assassins to be ruthless, heartless, inventive, brutally efficient and impervious to pain. There’s only one problem: if you drop one in cold water, he or she will invariably get amnesia.
That is the premise of both The Long Kiss Goodnight and The Bourne Identity. One of these movies is a taut, thrilling masterpiece of its genre and the other is a silly, flip, extravagant eruption of action-movie weirdness. I’ll let you figure out which is which.