What's a movie like Bourne Identity but with a woman?

December 16, 2006 9:41 AM

I'm trying to identify a movie that has a plot very similar to Bourne Identity but with a woman in the leading role.

I watched a film about 5-6 years ago about an ex-assassin (female) who was recovering after a memory loss as she was being chased by her former friends. She starts out as a meek brunette with a family and no past, and later she becomes blonde and dangerous etc. Then she teams up with a black guy and goes after the baddies who kidnapped her daughter. It's pretty much like The Bourne Identity but with a chick and older. What movie is it? Thanks!

posted by Svitlana to media & arts (14 comments total)

The Long Kiss Goodnight??
posted by Leud at 9:43 AM on December 16, 2006 [1 favorite]

Yeap, that seems to be the one.

'When we first met, you were like, 'Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins!' ' he says, marveling at the way Charly evolves from a prom-queen brunette into a punkish platinum-blond killer.

There's a quote from the NYT Review. And it came out 1996.
posted by theiconoclast31 at 9:54 AM on December 16, 2006

That's the one, thanks a lot!
posted by Svitlana at 10:08 AM on December 16, 2006

What I'm saying is, back when we first met, you were all like "Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins." Now, you go into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?
posted by WCityMike at 10:18 AM on December 16, 2006

Ooh, yeah, the first part of the quote makes no sense by itself.
posted by theiconoclast31 at 10:29 AM on December 16, 2006

For some reason, I saw "ex-assassin" and "older" and assumed you were talking about Point of No Return. But I shoudl have remembered, when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of "u" and "mption."
posted by infinitewindow at 10:45 AM on December 16, 2006

Everyone seems to have forgotten about Long Kiss Goodnight, which is a shame, because it is one of Samuel L Jackson's best rolls.

I'm always frank and earnest with women. Uh, in New York I'm Frank, and Chicago I'm Ernest.
posted by quin at 11:30 AM on December 16, 2006

For some reason, I saw "ex-assassin" and "older" and assumed you were talking about Point of No Return.

Ouch -- you count a 30-year-old Bridget Fonda as older than a 30-year-old Matt Damon.
posted by desuetude at 7:16 PM on December 16, 2006

Point of No Return is a remake of La Femme Nikita.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:34 PM on December 16, 2006

(But neither of them seems to be your movie; just noting it for future reference to chick assassin movies.)
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:35 PM on December 16, 2006

Fans of the excellent The Long Kiss Goodnight and La Femme Nikita will also enjoy Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt), starring Franka Potente who went on to play in The Bourne Identity and Supremacy.
posted by ceri richard at 1:29 AM on December 17, 2006

Are you sure it's not this?
posted by KenFox at 10:27 AM on December 17, 2006

desuetude, I meant older as in before 2003.

KenFox, lol.
posted by infinitewindow at 6:37 PM on December 19, 2006

desuetude, I meant older as in before 2003.

Oh. I read both the OP and you ask saying that the chick = older, not movie = older. My umption is now assed as well.
posted by desuetude at 6:06 AM on December 20, 2006