Knight & Day
Sat, June 19, 2010 
Let me just start by saying Tom Cruise is the man! He's only thing keeping you interested to the end. Which sucks, because its hard to fully enjoy any movie where one person has to carry the show on their shoulders.
The plot makes little to no sense, but you roll with it for the first bit anyways. Roy Miller aka Matt Knight (Tom Cruise) is a CIA secret agent who was assigned to guard a brilliant young scientist with another agent. But the other agent planned to steal the technology and sell it to the bad guys. All this actually happens off screen, but Knight fills us in. He uses June havens (Cameron Diaz) as a mule at the airport to bring the "zephyr" (the technology) through customs, but she has no idea she's being used. The CIA then puts June on a plane with Knight where they plan to kill him and retrieve the "zephyr". In an amazing opening sequence Knight kills everyone on board (all bad guys), crash lands the plane, drugs June, and then disappears.
In another off screen set up he drops her at home and leaves her several notes for instructions. There are very few plot twists you don't already see coming, and dialogue that was meant to be funny but wasn't. What you end with is a very predictable but fun story that definitely runs too long, and with the wrong actress along side Cruise.
If you're going into this as pumped as I was after seeing the trailers. I'd lower your expectations some. Cruise delivers everything you'd expect from him in a role we almost always see him in. Diaz on the other hand was terrible for the first half or more of the film. It's not until the third act that she actually seems to show up ready to act. Another disappointment was Peter Sarsgaard, who normally I would praise his acting, but in this scenario he seemed to have just phoned in his performance as well.
The other big down fall for Knight and Day is the Score. It doesn't at all follow the plot very well, and in no way resembles anything you heard in the trailer. The adrenaline pumped up tempo music we hear through out the trailer during action sequences in nowhere to be found. The action sequences themselves were actually pretty awesome, but the story felt like it was dragged on 20 minutes too long.
For a generic and predictable plot Tom Cruise gives you a few things to enjoy. But its not nearly enough to ignore the other weak performances or plot holes. I'm sure Cruise fanatics, if there's any left will love this no matter what me or anyone else tells them. The general audience on the other hand is not likely to pass word of mouth on nearly as much as the studio would hope for.
I'm giving Knight and Day an overall 6/10
Reader Comments (6)
I was really looking forward to this, DAMN!! I like Cruise but not enough to waste money on something where he's the only one acting. Real shame, this could have been awesome from the looks of it.
I'm still gonna check it out on wednesday, but I;m dissapointed to see that you didn't like it. It seems to be getting a lot of "meh" reviews. I was hoping someone would have something positive to say, it just looks so damn awesome!
I went to the sneakpeak on saturday. This was awful! I really hope MI 3 isn't this bad
I don't know what you're talking about, this was all kinds of crazy awesome!!!
It was not Toy Story 3, but it certainly WAS a lot better than what you're saying here. I woldgive this 7.5 or even an 8/10
wtf is it with alvin 81 and fucking toystory3??!! Do you work for pixar you fucking maniac?