Review of Knight and Day (2010) by Stephen M — 07 May 2012

You can quibble about the silliness of this over-the-top action adventure. You can bemoan the ridiculous use of star power to sell a film with obvious plot holes. However, most movie-goers seeking out fun will be very forgiving.

Diaz is a single mechanic who bumps into super-spy Cruise before a plane flight out of Wichita. It turns out Cruise is in charge of saving a brilliant young science nerd (Dano) and his invention-a self-charging battery that could power a small city. Crazy Cruise swears someone in his CIA agency is double-dealing. However, it appears that Cruise may be the criminal when Diaz comes back from the plane's bathroom to find he's killed everyone else on the aircraft.

Can she trust him? Have you ever seen a film? Of course, you have! This stuff has the Hitchcockian possibility of a Cary Grant charmer. Instead, it shoots lower-Romancing the Stone fed through Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

How do they handle the myriad plot holes? Do it in the filmiest, flimsiest way possible, of course! They have Cruise drug or knock out Diaz every so often, so she can mysteriously wake up in Jamaica or in Eastern Europe. It's creepy kidnapping presented as a stupid way to bloat the film's budget and show audiences several exotic corners of the world.

It's all in the name of fun, but depending on how stupid you like your action comedy, you may or may not have any.