![]() After that one act, the two are inexorably linked throughout the rest of the film.Īt first June has no idea Roy is a spy. Roy uses her bag to smuggle an item of great importance past security at an airport. ![]() June Havens (Diaz) is an unsuspecting woman traveling to Boston. He knows how to fly planes, kill bad guys during hand-to-hand combat sequences, and yet he always finds time to smile and look at life with a rosy outlook. Fortunately, somehow, 'Knight and Day' dodges all of that with the charisma and bravado of Tom Cruise, coupled with witty writing and slick direction. Studios bet on us getting lured to the theater with a couple of flashy names, and then end up giving us another generic movie that we've seen hundreds of times before. When I first heard about Cruise and Diaz being in an action-packed spy thriller I immediately thought, "Looks like Fox is going for another cut-and-paste action movie, slapping two well-known stars on the face of it and hoping to cash in at the box office." I admit this is a cynical way of looking at movies, but I've been burned time after time (' Red' just for one example) with movies that were set up the same exact way 'Knight and Day' is. Forget that Tom Cruise and his wacky ways may make your skin crawl in real-life, and just focus on how much fun this movie actually is. Forget the cutesy play on words title, or the fact that Cameron Diaz – who hasn't made a decent action movie since the first ' Charlie's Angels' – is in it.
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