Knight and Day
Knight and Day passes for a decent romantic action comedy flick. Considering the amount of rom-coms coming out these days, more than half of which are below average, Knight and Day is rather watch-able.
June Havens(Cameron Diaz) is a hot looking woman in her 30's, but one who has not lived her life yet, hasn't been out of the country, a rather sad and boring life altogether. In comes Roy Miller(Tom Cruise), an apparently rogue CIA agent, who meets June at the airport 'by chance'. June is going to her younger sister April's wedding when this so called 'accident' happens when she bumps into Roy Miller twice at the airport. They end up taking the same flight wherein she kinds of falls for the cool and macho looking Tom Cruise and decides to make a move. Once she is in the loo, Tom Cruise sets off on killing all on board, there aren't many, and at this point one doesn't know who they are and what they want really. As June gets out of the loo, not realising there have been gun shots fired, makes her move. Sadly things don't go any forward since the pilots are dead too and Roy has to crash land the plane. Then begins a series of events where Roy and June end up going to places all over the world, from the US to Spain to Germany to Austria to a random undiscovered island somewhere! The bad guys, there are many, want something from Roy. And now since June is involved too, they both are making a run for it. A couple of more characters are included in the film, but they are of hardly any importance. That's all there is to this film really. But that is what works best for it too. You don't need to think too much!
Cameron Diaz looks surprisingly old in this flick. Although in some scenes she does manage to look her old gorgeous self, but mostly her face looks like she's got 3 kids. But in-spite of all that she still has those moments when you totally fall in love with her. There is still that old charm from 'The Mask' left in her. And she can still act pretty decently, at least in a film like this. Tom Cruise is still the same cool looking dude that he was in 'Top Gun', although obviously older and a lot bigger it seems. But he still looks nice and plays his role in a pretty nice and sober way. No over the top jumps on the couch this time around!
After films like 'Identity', 'Walk The Line', '3:10 To Yuma', director James Mangold has tried his hands on a rom-com and done fairly well, although the film could have been much much better. The action sequences are way too fake to give you a real roller coaster feel, Tom and Cameron escaping thousands of bullets from 10s of bad guys reminds of you good old action flicks of the 90's in India where Sunil Shetty was the hero! The soundtrack is nice and happy. The locations in some of the scenes are breathtaking. Overall I'd say its a job well done. You won't feel your money is wasted once you're done watching this film. And I am sure all you Cruise fans out there are going to love this film. Cameron fans are in for a treat too. Cheers!
5/10
Sir Rachit Varma
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