“KNIGHT AND DAY” Movie Review: More Comedy, Less Action

“KNIGHT AND DAY” Movie Review: More Comedy, Less Action

Review in a Hurry: The movie Knight and Day starring  Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz is more of an old-fashioned oddball comedy rather than an action flick.

Both the stars are charming each other as well as all of us when they escape rascal government agents and global crooks. Although it could be made much better than this with less run time along with good climax.
The Bigger Picture: Tom Cruise is savvier self-marketer than the credit he gets from the people. In this feature, he smartly acts off some of the recent public perceptions about his wisdom where he is playing a man of action who may be foolish. There is a scene in which he gets enraged for how dairy products deteriorate your knees.
In the movie, Cruise plays a CIA agent whose name is Roy Miller who remain to be appealing and attractive regardless. Miller uses a gal naming June Havens playing by Diaz, who is extensively beautiful as well as expert at restoring hot rods.
She will not be suspected by the officials that’s why she’s been chosen, to secretly smuggle a top-secret item through airport security. The officials on the airport find out that June may be his partner in crime. They decided to board her on the same flight as Miller’s.
To recapture her all the time she gets away or found in the company of doubtful man Fitzgerald (Peter Sarsgaard , Miller insists that June wants to stay with him for her own safety.
They run the risk risk that either Miller is the opposite of what he says about himself or it will be impossible for them to get out of this situation alive while they were attracting to each other’s charm.
This is more of a romantic movie than tension. Miller is a total superman who mastered the Vulcan nerve pinch so there is rarely any scene in which he gets into real danger. The best part is when the action-movie model is subverted by the director James Mangold.
When June ends up drugged, all the action sequences are skipped and the only part shown in the movie is the glimpses of June that she make out while she is semi conscious.
Its tone is more like if Roger Moore’s James Bond had set up himself in a Howard awks comedy rather than Mission: Impossible. The film’s climax might have been objected by . Moore and Hawks where everything happen which could be predicted by anyone.
There is no need of spoilers because you have spoiled the story in your own mind before getting there. The 180—a Second Opinion: Its wonderful and truer thatDiaz has changed from insecure single woman to ass-kicking assistant.