Directed by:
James MangoldScreenplay:
Patrick O'NeillCinematography:
Phedon PapamichaelComposer:
John PowellCast:
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Mollà, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Marc Blucas, Maggie Grace, Dale Dye, Celia Weston, Gal Gadot, Brian Tarantina (more)VOD (5)
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Get set for wild action and sizzling chemistry with Knight and Day. Big screen superstars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz come together in this thrilling action-adventure. When June meets a mysterious stranger on a routine flight, she thinks she's met the man who’ll add some excitement to her life. But she soon discovers he's a fugitive super-spy, who thrusts her into a globe trotting cat-and-mouse chase. As the bullets and sparks fly, June must decide if she can really trust this Knight in shining armour. (20th Century Fox Home Entertainment)
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It’s all boom, bang, and zoom, and a middle-aged Barbie and a middle-aged Ken are all mwah, mwah. And all this happens quite stylishly, in 90s trappings and with the excellent idea of watching everything from June's point of view and not Roy's. It's just a shame about the great imbalance between the scenes and about Cruise. It’s not that he's not bad, but Ben Stiller would have been better for the role.
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Even on a second viewing, this movie still felt like terrible crap, starring my least favorite actress in the lead role and, I'll admit, I'm not a big fan of Tom Cruise either. Yet, I stuck with my original rating. Why? Well, despite the script being pretty dreadful, the whole silliness of it was oddly entertaining. I switched off all unnecessary brain functions (and trust me, there were many) and just let myself enjoy the simple yet fast-paced plot. Whether I actually liked it or not, one thing's for sure — I wasn't bored. / Lesson learned: When someone tells you you're safe, start running away screaming. 3*-
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Undemanding entertainment that relies on Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Cruise has played a decent number of similar invulnerable and indestructible agents, and here he can take advantage of his acting routine and audience expectations. Similarly, Cameron Diaz has played countless similar naive characters in her career. My problem with these types of films is that they are desperately predictable and have a terribly formulaic and simple script. In the airplane scene, Cruise takes down ten opponents without breaking a sweat, but the audience knows very well that if the plane were fully occupied and he faced 150 enemy agents, the outcome would inevitably be the same. A few decent lines and two or three interesting scenes where the story momentarily deviates from the template, like the scene where our hero shoots his enemy in the leg, can't save it. Knight and Day is exactly the kind of film where a fraction of a second after a new character appears, you can identify them as the main villain, even though this "surprise" is saved for the end by the screenwriter. Overall impression: 40%.
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Knight and Day could have been a hit in the 1990s, but today this movie feels like something of which Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a fresh remake (and not just because the main couple has sex in it). James Mangold manages the dynamics and action well and knows how to work with actors, but he is too old-fashioned for this genre.
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A perfect echo of the 1990s and the definition of a "summer film." The plot is from the ranks of primitive, overdone action scenes and most importantly a functioning central duo. Cruise plays himself, so he’s entertaining in the right way in the light-hearted atmosphere, and Diaz proves that playing a naive whiny blonde is not all that easy. It's too bad that it’s so predictable, or the feeling you get that the film won't surprise you with anything. This is John Powell's best music since The Bourne Ultimatum. 3 ½.
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