The newest Cruise action movie “Knight and Day” is not breaking any new ground. The stunts are impressive, the locations sublime and both Cruise and Diaz seem to have successfully stopped the aging process. It is classic movie escapism in every sense of the word and if you go into it knowing that and expecting nothing more you won’t be disappointed.
It has long been my theory that in every Tom Cruise movie, he is the “top” something. There was Top Car (Days of Thunder), Top Wagon (Far and Away), Top Agent (Jerry Maguire) and of course the one that started it all… Top Gun. This movie is no exception. Tom plays Roy a seemingly rogue ex-CIA operative that on a plane ride from hell takes innocent bystander Diaz along for the ride. What’s a girl gotta do to get a date these days?? If you are Diaz’s June, the answer is crash land a plane, parachute another, ride a motorcycle ala Michelle Pfeiffer style in “Grease 2” and outrun more bullets than Antonio Banderas in “Desperado”.
The movie itself is predictable but fun to look at – in my book a movie deserves at least a half star more if I get to vacation vicariously by watching it. You’ll visit the tropics, Prague and South America in this outing, so for $10 it is cheaper than a real vacation.
The stars have chemistry; both which each other and charisma all their own, so as implausible as the movie is at times, they kept my attention and made the movie extremely watchable. There is a scene however towards the end (feeling long at 2 hrs, 23 minutes) where I couldn’t help but think “Give me a break!” but I’ll forgive them this for the satisfying ending.
Enjoy this for what it is – a summer blockbuster that you will soon forget but enjoy while it lasts.
2 ½ of out 4 Stars
It has long been my theory that in every Tom Cruise movie, he is the “top” something. There was Top Car (Days of Thunder), Top Wagon (Far and Away), Top Agent (Jerry Maguire) and of course the one that started it all… Top Gun. This movie is no exception. Tom plays Roy a seemingly rogue ex-CIA operative that on a plane ride from hell takes innocent bystander Diaz along for the ride. What’s a girl gotta do to get a date these days?? If you are Diaz’s June, the answer is crash land a plane, parachute another, ride a motorcycle ala Michelle Pfeiffer style in “Grease 2” and outrun more bullets than Antonio Banderas in “Desperado”.
The movie itself is predictable but fun to look at – in my book a movie deserves at least a half star more if I get to vacation vicariously by watching it. You’ll visit the tropics, Prague and South America in this outing, so for $10 it is cheaper than a real vacation.
The stars have chemistry; both which each other and charisma all their own, so as implausible as the movie is at times, they kept my attention and made the movie extremely watchable. There is a scene however towards the end (feeling long at 2 hrs, 23 minutes) where I couldn’t help but think “Give me a break!” but I’ll forgive them this for the satisfying ending.
Enjoy this for what it is – a summer blockbuster that you will soon forget but enjoy while it lasts.
2 ½ of out 4 Stars
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