Knight And Day Movie Reviews

Can you actually fall in love while being trapped in an exploding car, a crashing plane, a vicious gun battle, a beastly bull run or a death defying car chase? You can, if you play your roles perfectly. Like Tom Cruise, who steps into the super shoes of the archetypal knight in shining armour and Cameron Diaz who dances around in a billowy dress and high boots like the typical damsel in distress

All the ingredients for a slick espionage thriller are accounted for here: attractive actors; exotic far-flung locales and spectacular action set pieces. A James Bond-style escapist confection, Knight and Day is ideal for a crunchy popcorn matinee. The opening sequence is a corker. A man and a woman bump into each other at an airport terminal, twice. Aboard the plane they flirt. But when the gal (Diaz) returns from the bathroom she discovers

It is amazing how intelligent direction can turn something senseless into something endearing and enjoyable. And while many such situations would be termed grotesquely hyperbolic in most of Rajnikant’s films, we let them pass as fanciful in a film like Knight and Day. So we do wonder how Diaz steers the car with so much precision from the back seat. And we question Cruise’s opportune jump into the car, yet despite all this so called larger than life implausible

It hurts to see two ageing superstars trying too hard to resurrect their lost charm and infuse some life into a poorly scripted action thriller. Every time you see Cruise gazing into the eyes of his heroine and flashing that trademark dimple (just like old times) in order to restore his trademark charm, you feel sorry for the actor as it no longer works. It surely did in Vanilla Sky, Top Gun, Jerry McGuire, Mission Impossible

Knight and Day, directed by James Mangold and starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz has all the elements of an enjoyable romantic thriller -- a sexy lead pair, a string of high-octane action scenes, and gorgeous international locations. Yet the film leaves you hungry for more. Cruise plays super-slick CIA agent Roy Miller, whose bosses no longer trust him. He's got a precious device they want -- a thumb-sized battery that can power a small city

Given that newspapers and television channels are reporting about the Naxalism menace daily, the release of Ananth Mahadevan's Red Alert is timely. It's a different kind of a political drama from the one that we saw recently in Raajneeti. This is the story of Narsimha (Sunil Shetty) and his wife (Bhagyashree) who are poor villagers with two kids. He is trying to make a living by supplying food to some Maoists in the forests of Andhra Pradesh.

He is a secret agent with an unclear agenda. She is a hopeless romantic, who is in a hurry to get home for her sister's wedding. He comes off as slightly nuts. She turns out to be more capable than she looks. When their paths cross, quirky cinematic sparks fly and romance and thrills are on the cards. Welcome to the 'new Hollywood' people 00 where the men have to be soft and the women have to be tough. Even when they are played by Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz