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Knight and Day

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6.5 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Comedy

Written by: Patrick O'Neill
James Mangold

Directed by: James Mangold

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 23, 2010

Running Time: 110 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 for sequences of action violence throughout, and brief strong language

Starring Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis, Paul Dano, Maggie Grace, and Marc Blucas

A chance encounter thrusts a woman and a charming but lethal operative into a series of adventures across the globe. As if dodging assassins and uncovering world-changing secrets weren't enough, she must now figure out if he is a good guy, a traitor – or just plain crazy. (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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88

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Calvin Wilson

An action comedy that works. But it’s also a surprisingly poignant romance. This is the summer flick you’ve been waiting for.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Diaz works that trademark mix of ditziness, sexiness, and brassiness.

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75

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Diaz has one of the most winning grins in the movies. Basically, what I wanted was more of it. Some of that Cary Grant dialog. More flirtation. More of a feeling the characters, not the production, were the foreground. More of the stars.

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75

ReelViews James Berardinelli

The movie is at its best when the audience is in the dark and, because our perspective is June's and she doesn't know what the hell is going on until well into the proceedings, that's when things are the most entertaining.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

In the end, Knight and Day isn't really about much of anything besides having a good time or perhaps the meaning of Tom Cruise-ness in the universe.

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75

New York Observer Sara Vilkomerson

This movie will undoubtedly be compared to the Brangelina mashup Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and with good reason-it has the same combo of quips and physical tricks, the same somewhat overwhelming chemistry between its two leads.

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

It's a quintessential movie hybrid: a romantic thriller with exciting high-speed chases, brisk comedy and exotic scenery.

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75

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

It's both straight-faced spy film and sly spy spoof. That's a difficult balancing act, but director James Mangold gets it exactly right.

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75

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

If you can settle into its odd, low-key groove, I think you'll find it's a light pop beverage that goes down easy during one of the lamest blockbuster summers in recent memory.

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70

Time Mary Pols

Yet he just kept going and going, and the slick, proficient Knight and Day is proof that you should never count Cruise out.

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70

Boxoffice Magazine Pete Hammond

Stylish, globe hopping, action-packed comedy that starts at full blast and never lets up.

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70

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

How you feel about Knight and Day will depend largely on your feelings about Cruise. If you can't divorce his performance from his off-screen antics, well, that's a problem, here and elsewhere. If you're willing to watch what's on-screen and leave it at that, there's fun to be had.

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65

Movieline Stephanie Zacharek

Nothing Cruise does seems to come from the inside -- every eye crinkle, every grimace, every brow furrow seems plucked from the air, collected from the universe around him and bent to do his bidding. Maybe that’s one kind of acting. But it’s not cool. Never will be.

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63

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

The story is kind of all over the place, scatterbrained without being madcap (This one feels tinkered with, reshoots, re-edits.).

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63

Boston Globe Ty Burr

The movie’s a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle.

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60

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

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.

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58

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

Knight and Day never makes sense from the opening credits. Heck, the title is only half-explained, and not as cleverly as the pun deserves. It's a movie that never gestated beyond the pitch: Glamorous stars in exotic locales, shooting and driving their way to safety through a gantlet of bad guys chasing a MacGuffin.

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58

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

In this oddly uninvolving caper, the size of skulls makes its own statement: The producers assume that audience interest in movie stars is bigger than audience interest in characters.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

Laziness permeates the film from the inexplicable escapes to the neglected romance.

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50

Variety Justin Chang

A high-energy, low-impact caper-comedy that labors to bring a measure of wit, romance and glamour to an overworked spy-thriller template.

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50

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

It strikes me that their teasing and one-upmanship are more brother and sister at play than lovers in heat. Cruise and Diaz are in it for the action rush.

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50

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

Despite its impressive pedigree and unshakable assurance, Knight and Day is nothing more or less than an average popcorn flick.

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50

Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir

Roy is like a meta-Cruise or a Cruise pastiche; even the disturbing, stalkerish aspects of his character seem as if they were constructed from tabloid stories about the actor's marriage, his religious affiliation, his sexual identity.

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50

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

With all the money expended on this movie, couldn’t anybody come up with a few good lines in between all the kabooms?

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50

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Mangold's larger problem is trying to hold together a movie that jerks about in tone as much as it does location, veering between grisly humour and cutesy sentiments.

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42

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Cruise is thrown into many sticky situations, with legions of trained assassins surrounding him on all sides, but he never once suggests that things aren’t entirely under control. It’s profoundly boring to watch a hero without weaknesses; after all, even Superman has Kryptonite.

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40

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

Frankly, I don't like to be bullied, and bullying is exactly what Knight and Day – overly cute and overconvinced of its own cool – does best.

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40

Slate Dana Stevens

The character of Roy Miller is so quintessentially Cruise-ian that he skirts the edges of self-conscious parody.

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40

Empire Ian Nathan

They make a fun duo, but none of the constituent genres work in this overbearing action-rom-com.

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38

New York Post Lou Lumenick

It would also help if they were given some dialogue that was actually funny, or at least more clever than the lines provided to Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl in the distressingly similar "Killers" from earlier this month.

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38

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Knight and Day may well suffice for audiences desperate for the bankable paradox known as the predictable surprise, and willing to overlook a galumphing mediocrity in order to concentrate on matters of dentistry.

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30

The New York Times A.O. Scott

A loud, seemingly interminable, and altogether incoherent entry in the preposterous and proliferating “action-comedy” genre.

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30

Village Voice Dan Kois

There's never been a particularly crisp line between intense, SUPER-AWESOME Tom Cruise and the characters he plays. In Knight and Day, his age-old cool curdles into motormouthed neediness.

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30

The New Yorker David Denby

We don’t ask for much from this kind of movie, but Knight and Day tramples on our desire for just enough plausibility to release the fun. It makes us feel like fools for wanting to be entertained by froth.

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30

Chicago Reader J.R. Jones

Cruise and Diaz have worked together before (in Vanilla Sky), but this is their first summer-movie pairing, and their star qualities are so similar--dazzling looks, good comedic chops, complete emotional vacuity--that together, instead of romantic chemistry they generate a sort of giddy, blinding falseness.

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25

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Too bad, though, that whenever the characters stand still to talk, Knight and Day induces stupor in the viewer.

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20

Time Out New York Keith Uhlich

This smug and callous action-comedy is about nothing but teeth.

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10

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

The source of this movie's energy is near-perpetual desperation. You can see it in Tom Cruise's fixed grin, and in the mad proliferation of unspecial effects.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.5 (out of 10) based on 63 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

D Romich gave it a7:
Cruise and Diaz make it work. Some of the fading in-and-out scenes (if you see the movie you'll know what I mean) are overdone and slow the movie down and the ending is a bit rushed. However, the clever banter between the two stars and some good action are enough to make this movie worth seeing.

Luke K. gave it a9:
Despite many preposterous premises that plague this film, it is nonetheless a whole lot of fun. Cruise and Diaz are both so very engaging and film-worthy that the film succeeds in spite of its many weaknesses. Most of the action was good, the bad guys were rightfully unlikable, although the mad scientist (not the mad scientologist) was weak. All-in-all a great summer escape film. Nothing new here, not great film-making, but fun enough to make one forget one's own problems while June and Roy deal with theirs.

John M gave it an8:
Good action. Would like to see more of the action scene which is cutoff when Cameron gets a "rufee".

Jim S gave it a7:
An entertaining romance/action movie. Cruise and Diaz work well together and bring an added dimension to the action, which is reminiscent of the Transporter and Bourne movies. I laughed out loud numerous times as did many others in the theater. This was the most entertaining movie I've seen in months and I would like to see it again.

Martin G gave it a10:
Fantastic, Funny, and truly Steller.

Ilan G gave it a10:
Honestly this movie is like an 8.5, but some MORON gave it a 2 and i need to cancel that out. Its a great action/comedy that is a little cheesy at parts, but it fits in with the characters. The cast is lead by a suburb director (310 to Yuma, Identity) and i would recommend this to anyone who enjoys sitting back and munching on some popcorn.

robert m gave it a9:
Great chemistry between Cruise and Diaz. Timely and funny humorous tension breakjs. Great action. Mangold made this movie fun to watch.

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