Knight and Day

First Hit: Fun and exciting to watch most of the way but the same jokes got tiring as the film progressed and it needed to be trimmed.

Tom Cruise plays Roy a supposed rogue FBI agent who seems just a bit off center. We pick up him up scouting people with roller carry-on luggage at the airport.

He runs into June (played by Cameron Diaz) who is transporting car parts for a GTO so that she can finish rebuilding the car as a gift to her sister. He slips a world changing battery in her bag so that he can get it through security. He runs into her again to get the battery back and heads off to catch his plane.

Unbeknownst to him she gets on the same plane which is now filled with people who want to kill him for the battery. She gets caught up in the story and from there the film goers take a ride with her and him through various plots of people trying to get this battery.

When things get to a point where Roy thinks June won’t handle a situation he drugs her. When she wakes up she is somewhere else and safe. This goes on and on. Whole scenes could have been cut to keep the laughter and crispness of the plot in check, but they weren't so we see the same type of jokes over and over again. 

The writers and director added unneeded layers to make the film more complex but there wasn't a good reason to do this. If Director James Mangold had left the film a bit more simple, I would have enjoyed it more knowing it was ride of thrills, spills and fun fluff.

Cruise is very good and convincing at being a slightly off kilter FBI agent that’s got skills galore, a funny intelligence and a hidden reason for doing what he is doing. Here he is fun to watch. Diaz is actually a perfect complement to Cruise. She is open, fully exposed, down to earth, and funny. Some of their scenes together are out loud funny and there was a fluidity of their roles which really worked. Peter Sarsgaard plays the villain FBI agent and he fulfills this small role effectively. He carries just the right amount of sinister-ism. Mangold, for the most part, did a good job of keeping the film moving, but the scenes became predictable and therefore trimming would have helped this film to become crisper and more watchable.

Overall: Not a bad film and definitely fun to watch Cruise and Diaz have fun together.

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