Knight and Day
0 Comments | Philadelphia Weekly, Jun 23-Jun 29, 2010 | by Prigge, Matt
Knight and Day
C
Review by Matt Prigge
Opens Fri., June 25
Why is it called Knight and Day? Glad you asked. In this hyper-violent romantic comedy, the token MacGuffin is housed in a toy knight. Also, late in we learn the character we know as Miller (Tom Cruise) is named Knight. Besides, who doesn’t love a teeth-grindingly awful pun? Still, better a bad joke than the shrug-worthy titles it’s gone under (All New Enemies, Trouble Wichita, Untitled Joint Comeback Vehicle for Two Fading Megastars). Not to make too much out of a mere title snafu, but inability to come up with a coherent name is symptomatic of the film’s creative vacuum.
Repartnered with the man with whom she shared a freaky, Monkees-backed sex scene in Vanilla Sky, Cameron Diaz plays a babeish auto mechanic who catches the eye of Cruise’s mysterious rogue. The two share some uninspired chit-chat on an underpopulated plane ride; when she goes to the bathroom, he kills everyone on board, pilots included. Eccentric psychopath who may leap on couches, or superspy nobly defending a newfangled mega-battery invented by a possibly autistic boy genius (Paul Dano)? Either way, he drags a perpetually whinnying Diaz on a massive globetrot that’s part Bond film, part Grosse Pointe Blank, part Mr. and Mrs. Smith, all derivative.
Knight and Day can boast this, at least: It’s not Killers, the month’s other wildly overbudgeted gun-totinq rom-com
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