Review of Knight and Day (2010) by Rosalind R — 30 Aug 2011

A film should do something. A film should know what it wants to give and give it to you. I don't know what Knight and Day is doing. I don't think it knows what it is doing.

So two of Hollywood's most glamorous, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, are in this espionage, comedic chase movie, where a woman finds herself involved with a rogue secret agent who will stop at nothing to protect a unique technological breakthrough from falling into the wrong hands.

Note how I said "comedic" in there. Diaz's airhead, ditzy character is thrown about by Cruise's insane action-driven plotline, making intense action sequences incredibly funny.... Or at least the movie would think so. Honestly, Cruise's character came across as downright threatening, not ever in a charming fashion, as he stalks and literally kidnaps the hapless woman without any human respect or decency. I cannot express enough how not funny, ironic or whimsical any of it was, Diaz needed rescuing from that mad man!

You might say "You have no sense of humour", but really... it is not funny. Even the action is pretty standard, Cruise going through the motions; his photogenic smile evading explosions and bullets as it always does.

Not funny, not clever and actually intimidating in its execution, you don't need to bother.