Knight and Day (2010)

A story of a girl who gets mixed up with a spy trying to clear his name.

Director:

James Mangold

Writer:

Patrick O'Neill

Stars:

Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Cruise	...	Roy Miller
Cameron Diaz	...	June Havens
Peter Sarsgaard	...	John Fitzgerald
Jordi Mollà	...	Antonio Quintana
Viola Davis	...	Isabel George - C.I.A. Director
Paul Dano	...	Simon Feck
Falk Hentschel	...	Bernhard
Marc Blucas	...	Rodney
Lennie Loftin	...	Braces
Maggie Grace	...	April Havens
Rich Manley	...	Danny
Dale Dye	...	Frank Jenkins
Celia Weston	...	Molly Knight
Gal Gadot	...	Naomi
Jack O'Connell	...	Wilmer (as Jack A. O'Connell)

Storyline

June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that of a secret agent who has realized he isn't supposed to survive his latest mission. As their campaign to stay alive stretches across the globe, they soon learn that all they can count on is each other.

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Plot Keywords:

secret agent | chase | spy | rogue agent | garage | 

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Genres:

Action | Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

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

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [fr] Official site [jp]

Country:

USA

Language:

English German Spanish

Release Date:

23 June 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Trouble Man

Filming Locations:

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$117,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£2,404,163 (UK) (6 August 2010)

Gross:

$76,418,654 (USA) (2 October 2010)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Regency Enterprises, Pink Machine

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The car Cameron Diaz is driving in the chase scene is a 1966 Pontiac GTO with Martinique Bronze exterior and Parchment interior.

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Goofs

The locomotive in the film is described as a diesel hydraulic, but it's clearly an electric locomotive.

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Quotes

[first lines]
June Havens: [to fellow line stander] Sorry.
June Havens: [to agent] So I'm going to make it onto an earlier flight, right?

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Connections

Featured in Hollywood's Top Ten: Romantic Adventures (2011)

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Soundtracks

"Tales of Old Street Fighters"
Written and Performed by The Driver

User Reviews

Not great, but solid fun

Knight and Day" is a comfort food movie. It's a pleasant diversion, a fun time at the cinema that doesn't ask a lot of of it's audience and offers an enjoyable ride. We've seen it all before, but it worked pretty well then, and it works pretty well now.

June Havens (Cameron Diaz) is an average perky blonde romantic comedy heroine who runs into the charming and mysterious Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) at the airport, and is sucked into a series of misadventures when Roy turns out to be a secret agent fighting rogue elements in his own agency . . . or maybe HE's the rogue agent . . . It depends on who she listens to. there's a mysterious device called the Zephyr that Roy is either protecting or trying to steal. All of this is fairly predictable, and, again, nothing new. But director James Mangold ("Copland", "Walk the Line", "3:10 to Yuma") always knows how to make a film play, and his skills haven't deserted him here. His pacing is brisk and fun, and he stages some terrific action (including one sequence from Diaz' point of view that did feel genuinely new).

Of course, this is a star vehicle, and whether you enjoy it will depend a lot on how you feel about Tom Cruise. Dismissing his personal life as utterly irrelevant, I find him to be a solid and dependable actor who does action better than almost anyone in Hollywood. And, here, he gets a rare chance to flex his comic muscles, and hie's quite funny (though too much of the best material is in the trailer). Diaz is pleasant, but tries a little too hard to be cute. And, occasionally, the film itself has the same problem.

But, overall, it's a funny little spy movie. part adventure, part romcom. Not destined for any Ten Best Lists, but enjoyable summer entertainment.