This review of James Mangold's "Knight and Day" contains spoilers, although I use this term lightly considering the difficulty of spoiling the obvious."Knight and Day" takes you on a mission with Roy Miller ( Tom Cruise)-a government agent on what seems to be his last dangerous mission, and June Havens (Cameron Diaz)- an everyday girl who gets on the wrong plane at the wrong time and falls for the wrong man. The film follows the courageous international agent Roy Miller protecting a dangerous new technology that fits in his hand, yet has the capacity to be a power source for an entire city. Terrified, yet thrilled and aroused, June Havens can't help but succumb to Miller's charm and join him on the journey, regardless of being told he is out of his mind by alleged "FBI agents". As the story unfolds one becomes aware that the alleged FBI agents are out to destroy Havens and Miller and retrieve the power source for their own plans. My biggest problem with the film is that I've seen it numerous times, set in different locations, with a smaller budget, and with different actors of course. The film did a swell job of keeping the viewer charmed by the A-list actors (although acting sub-par as a whole), yet didn't bring anything new to the romantic action-comedy table. From the preview one can make the assumption that the two completely opposite attractive individuals wouldn't click at first, but conclude the story by falling in love; one's assumption would be accurate."Knight and Day" isn't much more than a summer occupation of two hours on a hot day (which it accomplished). Effects were great and the relieving presence of Peter Sarsgaard (who's performances I admire) was well appreciated. However another issue with the film was it's failure to push the envelope. Throughout the film, agents were telling Cameron Diaz's character to stay away from Cruise because he was insane. This was of course a deceitful attempt at retrieving the power source. For the duration of the movie I was secretly hoping that Cruise's character really was insane in hopes of a surprising twist, but I'm afraid that the writers decided to go the safe route with a hollywood ending. For that I give "Knight and Day" two stars.
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