Renny Harlin can't resist a reference to Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye in his new f/x-laden action thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight. He also pays homage to the Three Stooges, which is more appropriate. Harlin's spouse, Geena Davis, fails once again as a macho heroine; a smalltown single mother, she's actually a CIA assassin with amnesia. The end of the Cold War has changed Company policies, and when a would-be hitman tries to erase her and Davis's latent killer instincts spring forth (she decks the guy with a meringue pie), she hires threadbare detective Samuel Jackson to trace her past. What follows is noisy, preposterous, and dull, with some of the worst dialogue since, well, Cutthroat Island. At the Cheri, the Fresh Pond, and the Circle and in the suburbs.