Knight and Day

Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise. For me, these are two stars that are slowly fading. Cruise saves everything by going back to his roots and it works for him, while Cameron occasionally pleases by showing a bit more of herself when acting is not going so well for her. Recently, I mentioned the movie "Knight and Day", which is very similar to what we see in "Knight and Day". The well-known duo of actors is hunted by agents or other assassins. They have to run away, the plot is a bit upside down, but the action scenes look pretty good. They look even better in "Knight and Day". Plus, some of the jokes work pretty well from time to time. Tom Cruise shows that he is not old at all for action movies and that it is a genre that simply suits him. He is still charismatic, you just believe in that hero of his, just like you would believe that he is actually a real madman. Cameron is properly loud at the beginning, sometimes she is delightfully foolish, and in the end, she doesn't offend even though her face can be quite annoying after a few tens of minutes. However, I originally expected the movie to be much worse. "Knight and Day" and "Salt" in one movie with excellent Cruise and... that's about it. More: http://www.filmovy-denik.cz/2012/06/rockova-lod-cruise-diaz-shawshank.html (21/02/2013)

Undemanding entertainment that relies on Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Cruise has played a decent number of similar invulnerable and indestructible agents, and here he can take advantage of his acting routine and audience expectations. Similarly, Cameron Diaz has played countless similar naive characters in her career. My problem with these types of films is that they are desperately predictable and have a terribly formulaic and simple script. In the airplane scene, Cruise takes down ten opponents without breaking a sweat, but the audience knows very well that if the plane were fully occupied and he faced 150 enemy agents, the outcome would inevitably be the same. A few decent lines and two or three interesting scenes where the story momentarily deviates from the template, like the scene where our hero shoots his enemy in the leg, can't save it. Knight and Day is exactly the kind of film where a fraction of a second after a new character appears, you can identify them as the main villain, even though this "surprise" is saved for the end by the screenwriter. Overall impression: 40%. (03/01/2011)

Wonderful nonsense. As if you would get onto a plane and fly back to the nineties where a car blows up when you shoot it in the gas tank, tough guys are quick with snappy lines and scantily clad blondes wink at you with dry Martinis in their hands. Tom Cruise doesn’t age, looks the same and is doing the same crazy things as he was twenty years ago. Mangold handles the directing pretty well (it has that pleasant old-school feeling that it should), but the too obviously digital effects spoil the overall effect. Sometimes I think that it’s a shame that Greengrass didn’t get his hands on this. And John Powell is a guarantee of good music. A pleasant time-out. (18/10/2010)

A perfect echo of the 1990s and the definition of a "summer film." The plot is from the ranks of primitive, overdone action scenes and most importantly a functioning central duo. Cruise plays himself, so he’s entertaining in the right way in the light-hearted atmosphere, and Diaz proves that playing a naive whiny blonde is not all that easy. It's too bad that it’s so predictable, or the feeling you get that the film won't surprise you with anything. This is John Powell's best music since The Bourne Ultimatum. 3 ½. (22/09/2010)

It’s all boom, bang, and zoom, and a middle-aged Barbie and a middle-aged Ken are all mwah, mwah. And all this happens quite stylishly, in 90s trappings and with the excellent idea of watching everything from June's point of view and not Roy's. It's just a shame about the great imbalance between the scenes and about Cruise. It’s not that he's not bad, but Ben Stiller would have been better for the role. (07/08/2010)