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Input: Enlarge By Frank Masi, 20th Century Fox A tropical island stay is anything but paradise for June (Cameron Diaz) and Roy (Tom Cruise), who have narrowly escaped yet another attack. ABOUT THE MOVIE ABOUT THE MOVIE Knight and Day 
  
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 Stars: Tom Cruise , Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Paul Dano, Viola Davis 
  
 Director: James Mangold 
  
 Distributor: 20th Century Fox 
  
 Rating: PG-13 for sequences of action violence throughout and brief strong language 
  
 Running time: 1 hour, 49 minutes 
  
 Opens Wednesday nationwide Knight and Day is a light and breezy way to while away a couple of hours on a hot summer evening. TRAILER: Check out a bit of 'Knight & Day' FILM PIONEERS: 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' spawning 'Knight' is one example It's a quintessential movie hybrid: a romantic thriller with exciting high-speed chases, brisk comedy and exotic scenery. And, perhaps best of all, stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz make a surprisingly charming couple. The movie starts off strong during a daffy and dangerous airplane flight. Think Airplane! starring Jason Bourne. Though there were reshoots and a rumored eight screenwriters (Patrick O'Neill gets credit for the script), the film has a consistent wit and energy likely attributable to the steady directorial hand of James Mangold (Walk the Line). While a few too many action scenes feature Cruise running in his distinctive arm-pumping style — bringing to mind his similar racing around in the Mission: Impossible movies — the stunts and eye-popping maneuvers are deftly executed. How Cruise interacts with Diaz is the key to this action comedy. He plays Roy Miller, a special agent on the run. Diaz is June, the owner of a Boston garage and a good-natured cipher. She is sucked into boarding his flight after an encounter at the airport. When authorities warn that Roy is a dangerous fugitive, she doesn't know whom to believe. We feel her confusion because we're also unsure if Roy can be trusted. His kind deeds intensify our investment in his enigmatic, yet endearing, character. Cruise subtly captures Roy's longing for normalcy, while Diaz nails June's girl-next-door appeal. Roy is gentle with only two people among the dozens he encounters: June and Simon (Paul Dano), a young scientist/inventor. Watching Cruise and Diaz fend off stampeding bulls and elude bad guys as they zoom around the streets of Seville on a red motorcycle is a heap of fun. They have an easy banter amid almost non-stop action. The globe-trotting adventures of June and Roy, her surprisingly chivalrous knight, are engaging, even if the twists don't always make sense and the villains are cartoonish. And the story falters toward the end when the premise is stretched thin. But in a lackluster summer, Knight shines as an original that thankfully lacks 3-D projection, sequel connections or comic-book associations. Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more |||||  
  
  
  
 Tom Cruise spends much of Knight and Day looking as if he's waiting for someone to pour casting mold over his head to make an action figure. When he's not flashing a blindingly fake grin, he's sporting a variation on the "Blue Steel'' look Ben Stiller perfected in Zoolander. Cruise's co-star, Cameron Diaz, fares better, because the movie requires her to shriek and wave her arms around a lot, which she's good at, and to walk around in a bikini or a yellow bridesmaid dress and black cowboy boots, a combo she really sells. 
  
 Too bad, though, that whenever characters stand still to talk, Knight and Day induces a fetal-curl stupor in the viewer. And the action scenes, which are intentionally preposterous and over the top and meant to be borderline comical, are just ridiculous. A motorcycle chase through the streets of Spain during the running of the bulls is a great idea. A motorcycle chase through the streets of Spain during the running of computer-generated bulls is not a great idea. 
  
 There is a sequence early on involving speeding trucks, vans, motorcycles and a tunnel that had the potential to be a mini-classic. Director James Mangold (Walk the Line) stages the action so things happen unexpectedly at the edge of the frame, startling you - except that most of it looks like a video game. When Diaz verbally references Grand Theft Auto, she's not kidding. 
  
  
  
  
  
 There are so many CG and green-screen effects in Knight and Day, the movie could almost pass for Sin City II. In one scene, Cruise and Diaz are driving in a car having a conversation, and the exteriors through the windows look so fake you wonder if Mangold wasn't paying homage to Hitchcock's love for rear projection. He's not, though. 
  
 The only thing Knight and Day pays homage to is Cruise's enormous ego, who apparently believes audiences would want to watch him in roles like this one. Cruise is playing a character who is essentially unplayable: Roy Miller, a super-super secret agent who makes 007 look like a playground sissy. Roy can outrun computer-generated jets. He can fly computer-generated planes, He can magically transport unconscious people from the middle of remote wheat fields into the safety of their bedrooms, and he can anticipate every move his opponents make, as if he had ESP. Roy, who may or may not be crazy, even appears to be immortal: In one scene, we see him riddled by bullets and falling into a river, and then he shows up a few scenes later, unscratched and unhurt, with no explanation as to how he survived. 
  
 I know Knight and Day is not intended to be the sort of movie in which logic plays much of a role. But the chemistry between Cruise and Diaz is nonexistent (there's a reason why Cameron Crowe cast them as bitter exes in Vanilla Sky). Cruise's considerable magnetism has utterly abandoned him - anybody could be playing Roy - and without any character to engage the viewer, the film becomes a long slog through slick, noisy emptiness. 
  
 And I mean noisy. In one scene, Diaz, who plays a gearhead who specializes in restoring old cars, is handed a machine-gun by Cruise so she can defend herself against baddies. Suddenly, without explanation, she starts shrieking, holding the trigger down and waving the weapon around like a marching baton, spraying bullets everywhere. Diaz can play a lot of roles, but screaming ninnies don't suit her. Neither does this movie. 
  
 Knight and Day (* out of ****) opens in South Florida on Wednesday June 23. ||||| Why is everyone giving Tom Cruise such a hard time? Can't we just forget about what happened on Oprah's couch? Is that asking too much? Is the movie business so flush with charismatic stars who can carry a picture that it can afford to eat its young? I don't think so.If you doubt Cruise's skills in the star department, "Knight and Day" should make you a believer. It's hardly a perfect film, not even close, but it is the most entertaining made-for-adults studio movie of the summer, and one of the reasons it works at all is the great skill and commitment Cruise brings to the starring role.A genial romantic thriller that very much wants to be in the mold of such Alfred Hitchcock entertainments as "North by Northwest" and "To Catch a Thief," or even Stanley Donen 's "Charade," "Knight and Day" is inevitably light on plausibility but, with Cameron Diaz Viola Davis and Paul Dano joining Cruise, it is strong in the acting department."Knight and Day" is also fortunate to have James Mangold in charge. As he demonstrated in "Walk the Line" and "3:10 to Yuma," Mangold is one of the few current directors who has an instinct for reasonably intelligent popular entertainment. His films don't end up on 10-best lists, but you walk out of them feeling you've gotten what you paid for, and that is an increasingly rare commodity.As those credits indicate, Mangold also works well with actors, and he and Cruise completely understand the old-fashioned movie star charm necessary to animate top-drawer secret agent Roy Miller, someone who does everything better when he's wearing sunglasses. Even the film's first shot, with everyone out of focus but Miller, underlines his position as "Knight and Day's" indispensable man.Patrick O'Neill's energetic script involves a classic movie MacGuffin, Hitchcock's famous name for the ultimately irrelevant plot element everyone on screen is after. Here it's the Zephyr, a tiny battery created by wacky Gyro Gearloose-type inventor Simon Feck (Dano) that is apparently "the first perpetual energy source since the sun."What "Knight and Day" is really about, however, is Miller's burgeoning relationship with June Havens (Diaz), beautiful but a bit scattered when our hero glimpses her in a Wichita , Kan., airport.Miller first views this blond in cowboy boots who restores old cars simply as a civilian he can use in his ongoing battles with the hordes who are after him. But before you can say "Boston! Salzburg! Seville!" the secret agent takes on 12 armed opponents in an elaborately choreographed battle on a 727 and the two of them are flying all over the world trying to escape not one but two sets of adversaries.Most pressing is the CIA , Miller's old outfit, whose ranks are under the impression that our man has gone rogue. The excellent Peter Sarsgaard makes for a wonderfully oily villain, reminiscent of the irreplaceable James Mason , and Viola Davis adds welcome dramatic heft as the CIA's director of counterespionage.Also in on the hunt is the foreign arms dealer no self-respecting thriller can afford to be without. In this case, he's the dread Spaniard Antonio Quintana (Jordi Mollà), a man with access to an unlimited supply of ruthless assassins.Diaz supplies her own kind of charisma as the innocent floundering in waters way over her head. She's a good counterweight to Cruise (both apparently did a lot of their own stunts) even though the script does have her panicking a lot and screaming things like, "Please stop shooting people.""Knight and Day" also features a ton of action, including a wild car and motorcycle chase through Seville's winding streets. Though it can seem at times as if the film is throwing too much at us too often (Hitchcock is dead and he's not coming back), it is, fittingly, Cruise who inevitably comes to the rescue.For Roy Miller is not only a peerless action machine; he is also an unflappable and unfailingly polite gentleman, always ready with a comforting remark or a compliment no matter how chaotic the situation. Cruise's charming facility with Miller's deadpan spy-side manner is this film's secret weapon, and yet another reason why we should put Oprah's couch in storage once and for all. |||||
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Lighthearted spy thriller Knight and Day is an entertaining, if not especially memorable, summer movie, say critics. How much you'll like it, they say, depends very much on how much you like Tom Cruise, who plays a crackpot CIA agent. Knight and Day "is hardly a perfect film, not even close, but it is the most entertaining made-for-adults studio movie of the summer, writes Kenneth Turan at the Los Angeles Times. "One of the reasons it works at all is the great skill and commitment Cruise brings to the starring role." Cruise and co-star Cameron Diaz make "a surprisingly charming couple," writes Claudia Puig at USA Today. "They have an easy banter amid almost non-stop action." Action scenes meant to be over-the-top are just ridiculous, complains Rene Rodriguez at the Miami Herald. "A motorcycle chase through the streets of Spain during the running of the bulls is a great idea. A motorcycle chase through the streets of Spain during the running of computer-generated bulls is not a great idea," he writes. Tom Cruise has become a lot more interesting since he jumped up and down on Oprah's couch, writes Ty Burr at the Boston Globe. Knight and Day is "a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle."