People are voting emotionally.

Good concept, poorly executed.

What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Let me start by saying what a fun action movie this is, Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are awesome together this was a total thrill ride from beginning to end.Geena Davis plays Samantha Cain a school teacher ( possibly junior high school or elementary school) who discovers she is a lethal assassin and that her former employers now want her dead. She teams up with wise-cracking detective Mitch Hennessy played by Samuel L. Jackson who she needs to help her uncover her past.I own this on VHS and now my mom recently found on DVD, so now I own both which is awesome. This movie just flat out rocks, I love it. The action scenes are very good the one liners are funny and the story all though standard is quite fresh.Overall, a great film and a great cast of memorable characters and of course it's fun from start to finish.I give it a 7/10. Pure fun and excitement. Highly recommended.

How in the world this over-the-top stinker received any award nominations, let alone measurable votes here, is beyond me. It irks me that Uverse gives this three of four stars, as many as it once gave the film "Gandhi" (I'm not sure, but their ratings might be based on IMDb scoring). It's sort of trying to be what "Bourne Identity" became so much more successfully, and it failed. Davis and Jackson are wonderfully skilled actors, and it is only their performances that make this worth watching, but this vehicle is ultimately a waste of their talent. The first hour is engaging, watching Davis and Jackson develop their relationship. But once the heavy violence and action start, it goes downhill fast. The lines delivered by the little girl (Zima) came out flat and unconvincing. Worse, they were said with an adorable lisp. Bierko is equally unconvincing (and miscast) as a smirking, sarcastic, wise-cracking bad guy. The dialog is so bad, it seems like a parody of itself. In bad films like this, just before the evil genius (who has captured and is holding the hero) orders the hero to be killed, he performs a monologue revealing to the hero his reason for doing evil and his secret plan to do more evil, in order to let the audience in on the ensuing danger. You may know that scene in "Austin Powers International Man of Mystery" (a much better film than this one), when Dr. Evil says, "I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death." That applies to a scene in this movie too. Most of this movie is terribly contrived, predictable, a cliché or just ridiculous. Davis is gratuitously stripped down to her underclothes in a few scenes (to nothing in one) to show off her toned body. You may not see that as a negative, as I did. I had to wonder how the bad guys didn't smell the gasoline Davis hides in the girl's doll just before the two are captured. Or why the girl waited until Davis expended all of her energy -- in a stupid and futile attempt to create a spark to ignite said gasoline by pounding on concrete with a crowbar -- and broke down in tears in frustration before she revealed to Davis that, by the way, she happened to have matches on her. How ironic and so convenient that the girl chose to hide in the very truck with the dangerous bomb that becomes involved in a high-speed chase. The scenes at the end meant to be touching are just corny. Oh, and the bloody makeup on Davis's face during the climax of the film makes her look like a crazy clown.

Geena Davis and Samuel L Jackson were on fire in this film. The premise was totally unbelievable: a small-town school teacher one minute and the next coolly declaring to an enemy ''You're gonna die screaming. I'm gonna watch.'' That was the story. Seven years of amnesia and now she is back to finish her job. There is more action in this film than in in any Bruce Willis action flick. Director Renny Harlin, who also directed Die Hard 2: Die Harder, learned and outdid himself. Jackson and Davis really meshed as co-stars and made the film that much more enjoyable. If you like you action fast and hot, then this is a not-to-be-missed adventure.

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.