KNIGHT AND DAY (2010)

I'll start with Tom Cruise.  Thomas Cruise Mapother the IV, you can run circles around me all the knights and kdays you want and I'll keep watching you do your thing, running like no other.  Am I the only one?  Minority Report?  

Cruise gives his all in  Knight and Day, which I must say he seems to do in all his films.  He is especially funny in this with the dead-pan delivery of his character's lines.  His take-it-or-leave-it attitude towards Cameron Diaz' character is amusing.  There isn't really any flaw in his performance.  It's not his fault his dialogue was more than wanting.

Cameron Diaz, is actually tolerable in this film.  Funny, even.  She's not usually my cup of tea, at any time of day, but she carried her character.  It was this film's character I was watching and not the usual Cameron Diaz character.  On this I reference My Best Friend's Wedding, There's Something About Mary, Charlie's Angels, even Vanilla Sky maybe.  Of course Vanilla Sky being another Cruize and Diaz project.

Roy Miller (T.C.M.the IV) boards a plane to Boston.  June Havens (C.D.) also boards the plane, only she wasn't supposed to be a passenger.  The corny dialogue begins not long after the plane is in the sky.  Something about all the places they want to be before they die.  Something about France and South America, oceans etc.  June isn't a shy girl and she's ready to lock Roy down.  While June is in the bathroom, Roy gets attacked by everyone on board, and he kills them all.  The pilots also end up dead.  So Roy ends up being a rogue F.B.I agent on a mission to protect a valuable, powerful battery.  The Beaureau is after him and June gets caught in the drama.  Roy works to protect June from the bad guys, those working within the Beaureau and all other forces.  Cue predictable plot points, forced romantic moments mid action scenes, laughable dialogue and the all too familiar cocktail of disappointment and surprise, the surprise being the unbelievable waste of money.

I'm not going to dissect Knight as I don't have the time of day.  It really doesn't merit my mental resources.  

Watch Knight and Day ONLY IF

*  You have a had a long, long long day at the office and get home after 8pm, so tired that you can't raise your arm long enough to switch channels more than twice and are lucky enough to have landed on a station that isn't an informercial one on the second try, and that station just happens to be airing Knight and Day.  

Watch Knight and Day to the end ONLY IF

*  You are more than half way through and want to be able to at least come away with something, something being the passably danceable song that plays through the closing credits, though its lyrics are almost as bad as the dialogue.

Do Not Watch Knight and Day IF

*  You can hear.