Knight and Day (2010)

I find this film to be extremely mediocre. It’s just a dumbed-down version of Mission: Impossible, really. Maybe with a little bit of Red Eye and Killers thrown in. But the film is much better than Killers. Granted, that’s not very difficult to accomplish, but it is better. The main problem with Knight and Day is that it is dull. In between action scenes, setup, or romance, there is just blandness. Nothing is happening, and the movie knows it. And what’s in between the blandness is sometimes bland in itself. When the movie sets up for something interesting, even though it has some information to keep the plot going, is usually bland. It was just boring. And said plot concerns a woman (the ever fading-from-significance Cameron Diaz) who ends up on a plane to go to her sister’s wedding, only to meet a secret agent (the ever target-of-parody Tom Cruise). Things happen, and they get locked up in a conspiracy with lost islands, random shoot-outs, and Paul Dano as a young scientist who invents a never-ending battery (which I need for my laptop which I’m writing this on right now. The battery on this thing is terrible). Does what I am saying sound like it makes sense? Not hugely. The movie does not make that much sense. The cast gives it their all (especially Paul Dano. He’s awesome everywhere he goes, and the same is said here), the director is trying so hard, but the film just lacks. The action scenes are kind of cool, especially the ones that take place on planes and trains, but they just seem uninspired. Being completely honest, the movie feels like everybody that was working on it was half-asleep. If Mission: Impossible II fell on its head as a baby, then it would turn out something like Knight and Day.
6.5/10