Movie: Knight & Day
Year: 2010
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: James Mangold
Stars:Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Peter Sarsgaard

Snapshot of Story:
A unsuspecting woman becomes entangled with a secret agent who is being hunted by crooked undercover agents.

Storyline:
Cameron Diaz plays June Havens who accidentally bumps into the wrong person at the airport and thus propelling her into a deep undercover action/thriller that is sure to bring plenty of smiles to the audience. The man she bumps into is Roy Miller played by Tom Cruise who is wanted by the secret agents for harboring highly classified information.

Although the story is not that original, the movie is nevertheless a fun watch with the two main characters immersed in high speed chases and thrilling near death action scenes. Their first encounter with each other leads them boarding a Jumbo 747 where the entire crew is destabilized by Roy Miller leaving June Havens dazed and unable to comprehend the events happening around her.

The acting performances of the two prime characters are as expected of star quality and are exactly what makes this movie very entertaining to watch. Cameron Diaz with her almost child-like innocence and personality works well with Tom Cruise’s fast and furious lifestyle. The director has done well to blend these two characters into their respective roles with highly amusing and often comical events. In one scene June is having coffee with an old boy-friend when Miller comes into the scene and whisks away June with supreme confidence and speed. This only highlighted his quick-witted thinking that came about through years of training as a secret agent. If one saw Tom Cruise’s old movie ‘Collateral Damage’, one can see a completely different persona to the character in this movie.

There are times when the movie becomes hardly believable in some of the action scenes, but the movie was made purely to entertain and something which it does well. June Havens gradually picks up the lingo of undercover secret agent talk and is able to shoot a gun, hoodwink the agents and get out of sticky situations, quite a feat in such a short space of time. In another scene, we find that the agent Roy overlooks the locked ‘grid-system’ in a remote island where their whereabouts was revealed by a simple call to June’s cell-phone. A pretty bad omission in my mind for someone who is skilled in the art of war and communications technology.

Final Thoughts:
Knight and Day is a fun movie to watch with two of the most renowned actors in Hollywood bringing their magic to the big screen. It has the plot of a ‘James Bond’ movie but the thrilling action and chases coupled with the polarized characters of the two main stars makes it quite an enjoyable movie to watch.

Rating:
7/10

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