Knight and Day

June 23rd, 2010







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Knight and Day

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Plot
A story of a girl who gets mixed up with a spy trying to clear his name.

Release Year: 2010

Rating: 6.3/10 (64,816 voted)

Critic's Score: 46/100

Director: James Mangold

Stars: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard

Storyline
June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that of a secret agent who has realized he isn't supposed to survive his latest mission. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon learn that all they can count on is each other.

Cast:
Tom Cruise - Roy Miller
Cameron Diaz - June Havens
Peter Sarsgaard - John Fitzgerald
Jordi Mollà - Antonio Quintana
Viola Davis - Isabel George - C.I.A. Director
Paul Dano - Simon Feck
Falk Hentschel - Bernhard
Marc Blucas - Rodney
Lennie Loftin - Braces
Maggie Grace - April Havens
Rich Manley - Danny
Dale Dye - Frank Jenkins
Celia Weston - Molly Knight
Gal Gadot - Naomi
Jack O'Connell - Wilmer (as Jack A. O'Connell)



Details

Official Website: Official site [France] | Official site [Japan] |

Release Date: 23 June 2010

Filming Locations: 31 Stuart St, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Box Office Details

Budget: $117,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend: $20,139,985 (USA) (27 June 2010) (3098 Screens)

Gross: $258,804,462 (Worldwide) (15 November 2010)



Technical Specs

Runtime:



Did You Know?

Trivia:
Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz did a majority of the stunts on their own. Both Cruise and Diaz are avid drivers and have experience in doing sharp turns and 180's.

Goofs:
Continuity: When June goes up the escalator at the airport, just before she runs into Roy, the people behind her change from police to civilians and back again.

Quotes:
[first lines]
June Havens: [to fellow line stander] Sorry.
June Havens: [to agent] So I'm going to make it onto an earlier flight, right?



User Review

Not great, but solid fun

Rating: 7/10

Knight and Day" is a comfort food movie. It's a pleasant diversion, a fun time at the cinema that doesn't ask a lot of of it's audience and offers an enjoyable ride. We've seen it all before, but it worked pretty well then, and it works pretty well now.

June Havens (Cameron Diaz) is an average perky blonde romantic comedy heroine who runs into the charming and mysterious Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) at the airport, and is sucked into a series of misadventures when Roy turns out to be a secret agent fighting rogue elements in his own agency . . . or maybe HE's the rogue agent . . . It depends on who she listens to. there's a mysterious device called the Zephyr that Roy is either protecting or trying to steal. All of this is fairly predictable, and, again, nothing new. But director James Mangold ("Copland", "Walk the Line", "3:10 to Yuma") always knows how to make a film play, and his skills haven't deserted him here. His pacing is brisk and fun, and he stages some terrific action (including one sequence from Diaz' point of view that did feel genuinely new).

Of course, this is a star vehicle, and whether you enjoy it will depend a lot on how you feel about Tom Cruise. Dismissing his personal life as utterly irrelevant, I find him to be a solid and dependable actor who does action better than almost anyone in Hollywood. And, here, he gets a rare chance to flex his comic muscles, and hie's quite funny (though too much of the best material is in the trailer). Diaz is pleasant, but tries a little too hard to be cute. And, occasionally, the film itself has the same problem.

But, overall, it's a funny little spy movie. part adventure, part romcom. Not destined for any Ten Best Lists, but enjoyable summer entertainment.





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