not a box office success while no one really know why . it may have fail simply because of it title . it look a though you need a two word tough guy title to attract a sufficient proportion of the idiot crowd die hard and lethal weapon and hard weapon and die lethal and etc . talk about the long kiss goodnight will get you nowhere . but for once renny harlin have make a good action movie . a large part of the reason for this lie in the fact that the central character and samantha and earn our affection and interest early on . a she become charly again and be tear represent we certainly want charly to thwart the bad guy and and all that while but we do not want her to lose touch with samantha in order to do so even though we like charly and too . geena davis bestow all of her considerable charm on both half of the central character . samuel l. jackson play second fiddle for a change . it turn out he good at it . that be a compliment . intelligent and far superior to anything in the die hard series if i be more cynical i would add and it not surprise that it do not do well and but i do not really feel that way while it be surprising that it do not do well .