Tom Cruise is a loose cannon who finds some excess baggage in the form of Cameron Diaz, on his plane flight in the action-adventure KNIGHT AND DAY.Cruise is C-I-A operative Roy Miller, an agent who has apparently gone rogue after obtaining a self-sufficient and everlasting energy source off the black market. Diaz is June, the unassuming passenger aboard Roy’s flight. She’s headed for her sister’s wedding, but during the flight, after making a quick stop in the powder room, returns to find all of the flight’s passengers, with the exception of Roy, dead.
With Roy and June as the lone survivors, Roy’s foes believe that June must be complicit in Roy’s plans.
With Cruise and Diaz in the lead roles, and the film in an accomplished director’s hands like James Mangold, one would expect for KNIGHT AND DAY to be a breezy, lightweight, sometimes thrilling slice of entertainment for adults. It’s breezy and lightweight, but KNIGHT AND DAY also becomes enamored with CGI oriented action scenes, one’s which aren't bad, but also aren’t particularly good, and end up stripping away the chemistry that Cruise and Diaz have together.
Each moment between Roy and June is cut short by a high speed chase, a slew of bullets or the watchful eye of the Central Intelligence Agency. These two characters aren’t allotted any quality time together, so there’s little stake in their fate. It’s a shame because KNIGHT AND DAY returns Cruise to the role of movie star. After some admirable attempts at more serious films, Cruise’s Roy is a return to the charismatic role that made him a household name. Diaz is also good, creating a charming and naïve, but still smart and strong woman to counteract Roy’s natural instincts.
KNIGHT AND DAY’s effects-driven adventure is an upgrade from the incomprehensible 2009 films like TRANSFORMERS 2 and TERMINATOR: SALVATION. Ultimately though, KNIGHT AND DAY is more disappointing, since the participants are much more interesting, but are given less time to interact.
Grade: C
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