A young woman gets mixed up with a disgraced spy who
is trying to clear his name.
Director: James Mangold
Writer: Patrick O'Neill
Stars: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard.
Storyline
June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that
of a secret agent who has realized he isn't supposed to survive his latest
mission. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon
learn that all they can count on is each other.
User Reviews
Not great, but solid fun
17 June 2010 | by ungy357 (United States) – See all my
reviews
Knight and Day" is a comfort food movie. It's a
pleasant diversion, a fun time at the cinema that doesn't ask a lot of of it's
audience and offers an enjoyable ride. We've seen it all before, but it worked
pretty well then, and it works pretty well now.
June Havens (Cameron Diaz) is an average perky blonde
romantic comedy heroine who runs into the charming and mysterious Roy Miller
(Tom Cruise) at the airport, and is sucked into a series of misadventures when
Roy turns out to be a secret agent fighting rogue elements in his own agency .
. . or maybe HE's the rogue agent . . . It depends on who she listens to.
there's a mysterious device called the Zephyr that Roy is either protecting or
trying to steal. All of this is fairly predictable, and, again, nothing new.
But director James Mangold ("Copland", "Walk the Line",
"3:10 to Yuma") always knows how to make a film play, and his skills
haven't deserted him here. His pacing is brisk and fun, and he stages some
terrific action (including one sequence from Diaz' point of view that did feel
genuinely new).
Of course, this is a star vehicle, and whether you
enjoy it will depend a lot on how you feel about Tom Cruise. Dismissing his
personal life as utterly irrelevant, I find him to be a solid and dependable
actor who does action better than almost anyone in Hollywood. And, here, he
gets a rare chance to flex his comic muscles, and hie's quite funny (though too
much of the best material is in the trailer). Diaz is pleasant, but tries a
little too hard to be cute. And, occasionally, the film itself has the same
problem.
But, overall, it's a funny little spy movie. part
adventure, part romcom. Not destined for any Ten Best Lists, but enjoyable
summer entertainment.
No comments:
Post a Comment