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Knight and Day

By DVDFriend, July 1 2010


Rating: 3

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Didn't knock it out of the park
The commercials give you a good idea of what it's like. Tom Cruise plays a silly version of his Mission Impossible character. Cameron Diaz plays a bubble head (nothing new there) who gets caught up with Tom's shenanigans.

It's pretty funny and entertaining, but not so much as to make it a very good movie... just passable. I like the chemistry between the characters. They polluted that with a plot attempt.

There are two scenes worth of mention:

Tom Cruise does a motorcycle stunt. It's funny because you don't see the stunt; just how it starts and how it ends. You see the motorcycle hit a ramp, then the bike's flying through the air with a passenger, and crashes into the water. Then you see a helmet fall on the hood, then you hear a big thud as he lands on the roof. You have to fill in the blanks. Cool scene.

The other scene that is worthy of mention is the scene that they stole (or accidentally copied) from MY NAME IS EARL, if you can believe it. Towards the end of the series, we start to learn the origins of DARNELL THE CRAB MAN. He's on a mission to clear his name, or something similar, and Earl comes along for the rid. But, Darnell keeps drugging him. So, the only bits you see are the bits where Earl starts to wake up until he's drugged again. Each time this happens, he's in a completely different bizarre situation. Knight and Day did the same thing. Twice.


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