Action-comedy from the director of 3:10 to Yuma and Walk the Line, with Tom Cruise as a cocky super-agent and Cameron Diaz as a ditzy love interest dragged into his deadly, globe-trotting mission.
Knight & Day – Cruise and Diaz's second pairing after 2001's Vanilla Sky – was filmed in various locations around the world, including Massachusetts, Spain, Austria and the tropics.
Knight and Day is a movie that proves stronger in concept than it does in execution. What is intended to be a mega-wattage star vehicle, a throwback to the golden days of glossy Hollywood power, also serves as a sign of the times: superstars may not be the drawcard they once were.
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz are both versatile, likeable actors, proven to be capable of mainstream as well as indie (Magnolia and Being John Malkovich, for example). Here, however, their double-act can’t help but draw attention to the broadest strokes of their celebrity lives.
Even if we buy into it anyway – the fun of the movie is supposed to be that these actors are so huge off-screen – when so much of Knight and Day places its eggs in the star-value basket, there really isn’t anything else of worth. Nobody involved has bothered to make a story/concept that stands out from anything else.
The movie is a slick, easy watch. The budget is big; the globe is trotted. But sadly, whilst I’ve enjoyed the last few films from director James Mangold (Walk the Line, 3:10 to Yuma), this could have been made by anyone. The spy-caper story is as forgettable as they come and the jokes are pretty forced.
The question Hollywood will be asking itself right now is: how could something so massive prove so inconsequential?
By Andrew Hedley, Flicks.co.nz
Its a lot of fun. Little Tommy Cruise's delivery and timing are spot on. His comic talents are far underrated. Its not meant to be Frost - Nixon, it is just a fun chase film with plenty of deadpan humour.
that was so fuull of action it made me scared....... Dat u hav 2 cc
I LOVED THIS MOVIE WELL RECOMENDED!!
I know this movie got a lot of bad reviews but my friends and I loved it! It was so much fun!
ehh... i'd say it's a dvd movie. i couldn't tell if it was meant to be an action or a comedy. if you want action go see inception.
Diaz has one of the most winning grins in the movies. Basically, what I wanted was more of it. Some of that Cary Grant dialog. More flirtation. More of a feeling the characters, not the production, were the foreground. More of the stars.
If you've had a busy week and want a bit of light frothy escapist entertainment filmed in far-flung locations full of good-looking people doing thrilling things, this might be the film for you.
They make a fun duo, but none of the constituent genres work in this overbearing action-rom-com.
Laziness permeates the film from the inexplicable escapes to the neglected romance.
It's hardly a perfect film, not even close, but it is the most entertaining made-for-adults studio movie of the summer, and one of the reasons it works at all is the great skill and commitment Cruise brings to the starring role.
We've been told the NZ release date for this flick is Thursday, 15th Jul 2010.
Release date: July 15th 2010.
We haven't received times for this movie in this location yet. However these are updated as cinemas announce them, so check back soon. Hopefully the lovely cinemas in your location will choose to play it shortly. ~Ed.
