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Knight and Day

Teaser poster

Directed by James Mangold

Produced by Cathy Konrad

Todd Garner

Steve PinkWritten by Patrick O'Neill

Starring Tom Cruise

Cameron Diaz

Music by John Powell

Cinematography Phedon Papamichael

Editing by Quincy Z. Gunderson

Michael McCusker

Studio Regency Enterprises

New Regency Pictures

Dune Entertainment

Pink Machine

Tree Line Film

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release date(s) June 23, 2010

Running time 109 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Knight and Day From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Knight and Day ,[4] (formerly titled Wichita[5] and

Trouble Man[4]) is a 2010 romantic action comedy film

starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The film, directedby James Mangold, is Cruise and Diaz's secondon-screen collaboration following the 2001 film Vanilla

Sky .

The film went through a period of "development hell";which included a prior film director and multiple writersthat worked on the script. Producers for Knight and Day

went through multiple other actors for the lead rolesbefore eventually settling on Cruise and Diaz. Will Smith,Chris Tucker, and Gerard Butler were considered by thefilm's producers for the male lead that later went toCruise, and Eva Mendes was initially set for the role thatDiaz later portrayed in the movie. The film's investorsoffset funding costs by paying Cruise a lower advance feeand neglecting to provide him with a share of the revenueuntil the financiers earn back their initial investment in the

production.[6] Filming took place in several locations,mainly in several cities located in Massachusetts, whileother scenes were filmed in Spain and parts of Austria.

Knight and Day was released in the United States onJune 23, 2010. The film received mixed reviews from filmcritics; it garnered a "rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes

based upon aggregated reviews,[7]

and a rating of "mixedor average reviews" at Metacritic.[8] Knight and Day

performed poorly at the box office in its debut,[9]

proceeded to fall nine percent in ticket sales in its second

day after being released,[10] and took third place behindfilms Toy Story 3 and the comedy Grown Ups in its first

Friday after release.[11] At $20.5 million, the total U.S.weekend box office take for Knight and Day was the worstresult for an action film starring Tom Cruise in 20 years.[12][13]

However, the film was still a financial success. With aproduction budget of $107 million (after tax credits) Knight

and Day went on to gross $261,924,837 worldwide. Itgrossed an estimated $185.5 million internationally,whereas it only grossed $76.4 million in the United

States.[3]

Contents

1 Plot

2 Production

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Budget $117,000,000[1][2]

Gross revenue $261,924,837[3]

2.1 Development

2.2 Casting

2.3 Financing

2.4 Filming

2.5 Soundtrack

2.6 Marketing

3 Box office4 Critical reception

5 References

6 External links

Plot

Knight and Day follows the adventures of Roy Miller (Tom Cruise), a spy on the run, and June Havens(Cameron Diaz), a car restorer. Miller is seen watching Havens, and he bumps into her a couple of timesas they go through security at Wichita Airport. Havens is making her way back home to Boston fromWichita, Kansas after picking up spare parts for her deceased father's classic Pontiac GTO car, that sheis restoring for her sister as a wedding gift. Even though she has a confirmed reservation for her flight,she is told at the gate that it is overbooked. Miller, able to board, whispers to her that "sometimes thingshappen for a reason". Unbeknownst to Havens, Federal agent Fitzgerald (Peter Sarsgaard) is monitoringMiller's movements and, believing she is working with Miller, puts her back on the flight list.

On board the flight, Havens notices that there are only four or five other people present. She relaxes witha drink, and chats about her dream of someday driving to Cape Horn while Miller checks out the other passengers. She is charmed, and goes to the restroom to freshen up. While she is occupied, Miller isattacked by the remaining passengers and crew. Miller kills them all, including the pilots. After sheemerges from the restroom Miller calmly informs her that everyone onboard is dead. Thinking that he isoking, Havens plays along until Miller enters the cockpit. In a spell of turbulence, she notices the deadbodies falling over in their seats, and spilling into the aisle. Miller lands the plane on a highway, but skidsoff the end of the road into a corn field. Miller gives Havens a drink, and explains that she may bequestioned by various officials. She is not to get in any vehicle with them, nor accompany them if theysuggest taking her away to a "safe" place. Havens passes out due to a knock-out drug in the drink, butawakes at home amongst clues that Miller brought her there, ensuring her safety.

Havens struggles through the day trying on bridesmaid dresses for her sister, April's (Maggie Grace)wedding. Talking over what to do with their dad's GTO car Havens is shocked to learn that April wants tosell it. She is lured out of the shop and is accosted by a group seeming to be FBI special agents who,with assurances that she will be safe, drive her away. She is shown some files pertaining to Miller, and isquestioned by the agents to determine if she is working with him. Suddenly, Miller shows up, and withmuch shooting and acrobatics, "rescues" Havens.

Havens doesn't know who or what to believe and flees to the firehall, where her former boyfriend,Rodney (Marc Blucas), works as a firefighter. Upon hearing her story he thinks she is merely stressedfrom the wedding, and takes her out for pie. While they are chatting, Miller arrives and kidnaps Havens.He handcuffs her and shoots Rodney in the leg, telling him this will all turn him into an overnight heroand virtually guarantee his desired promotion to lieutenant.

Miller explains that Havens is safer with him; and Havens agrees to follow him as they go to pick upSimon Feck (Paul Dano), a genius inventor who created a perpetual energy battery called the Zephyr.They arrive at a safe house in Brooklyn where he left Feck. He is missing, but has left clues that he canbe found on a train in Austria. The two are immediately ambushed by men belonging to Antonio (JordiMollà), a Spanish arms dealer. After Miller again drugs Havens, she drifts in and out of consciousness

between their capture and escape from Antonio's men. Miller brings her to an island that is off the grid,


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which he calls his home. After leaving Miller in frustration to wander the island, Havens notices amessage on Miller's cell phone with a Boston address. While studying this, her cell phone rings, showingher sister's caller ID. In answering the phone, she accidentally leads Antonio's group to the hideaway.They try to kill Miller and Havens with a remote drone.

Again knocking out Havens, this time with a neck pinch, Miller transports them to a train heading throughthe Alps. Havens awakes alone and, missing a message from Miller, leaves to get breakfast in the dining

car where she encounters Bernhard (Falk Hentschel), a German assassin whom she believes is Feck.When she finds the message stuck to the bottom of her shoe, she realizes that Feck is with Miller, andBernhard is someone else. Using tricks learned from Miller, Havens manages to survive, and Bernhard iseventually knocked out of a window by Miller and killed by a train coming from the opposite direction.

Miller puts Havens and Feck up in a hotel in Salzburg, Austria, and heads to a meeting with a mysteriousbeautiful woman. Havens follows him, and hears him make a deal to sell the Zephyr to Antonio. Havensis picked up by the CIA and meets the director of counter-intel, who confirms that Miller is a rogue agent,and gives her a pen transmitter to signal them when she is with Miller and the Zephyr. Miller meets her back at the hotel, and shows her the Zephyr, which is now showing signs of overheating. Havens usesthe pen to notify the agents, but Miller escapes to the roof-tops. After leading the CIA agents on a chase,Miller is apparently shot and falls into the Salzach River.

Havens is sent home by the agents in time to stand at her sister's wedding. When Havens hears thesong that Miller used as his ring-tone, she heads to the address she remembered from his iPhone. Shemeets the people at the address, and realizes that they are Miller's parents. She learns that Miller's realname is Matthew Knight. They believe their son, a former Army sergeant and Eagle Scout, is dead; butthey are fabulously wealthy from winning lotteries and sweepstakes they don't remember entering.

Havens leaves the Knights, and calls her own voice mail, leaving a message that she has the Zephyr.She is quickly captured by Antonio's men and taken to Spain. She is drugged with truth serum, whichmakes her relaxed and happy. Antonio realizes that she doesn't have the Zephyr, and the only way hecan get the device is to pay Fitzgerald who has kidnapped Feck. Miller has been following Feck using atracking app on his iPhone, and stumbles upon Havens in the Spaniard's compound. Havens is rescued

as she is being taken out for execution. They pursue Fitzgerald and Feck on a motorcycle, while eludingAntonio's men during the Running of the Bulls, during which Antonio is trampled to death by some bulls.

Fitzgerald is able to escape in an amphibious plane with the now extremely hot Zephyr while Miller is hitin the chest by a bullet as he saves Feck. Feck comments that the battery is unstable. As they watch theplane climb, the battery explodes, killing Fitzgerald.

Miller collapses from the gunshot wound, but wakes in a hospital. He receives an apology from thedirector (Viola Davis), who tells him that he rooted out a corrupt team. He asks about Havens, and is toldthat she has returned home. He is warned that he can't be distracted, and must forget her to continuewith his job. The Director also explains to Miller that the agency will "transfer you to a secure facilitytomorrow, for your safety" using the same wording that he warned Havens about. As they leave, a nurse

enters, and gives Miller his medication. Miller realizes that he's been drugged, but then sees that thenurse is Havens.

Miller comes to in the rebuilt classic car that belonged to Havens' father. After he asks what day it is,Havens kisses him and says it's someday. She drives off, traveling along a coastal road past a signpostfor Cape Horn. The final scene shows Roy's mother telling her husband that they have just received twotickets to Cape Horn. Though she blames her husband for ordering them by mistake, she insists thatthey go.

Production

Development


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Before film director James Mangold signed on to Knight and Day , it was previously associated withdirector Tom Dey. The script originated with writer Patrick O'Neill, a friend of producer Steve Pink, whooriginally wrote the script as a serious thriller involving an older male character (battery creator) and ayounger man (spy) and that the script had the tone of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and was titled All

New Enemies. There are even rumors that Gene Hackman and Justin Long were attached to thatversion of the story. The script was later refined and became a romantic comedy action romp titledTrouble Man that had Chris Tucker and Eva Mendes attached. As the script progressed into being

Wichita, Adam Sandler became involved but passed. Then, new screenwriters were brought on,beginning with Scott Frank whose draft attracted Cameron Diaz. She became attached and then broughton writer Dana Fox, whom she had worked with on What Happens in Vegas. Gerard Butler was offeredthe lead, before he passed, and then Diaz sent the script to Tom Cruise and from there, James Mangoldbecame involved, followed by seven more writers. In subsequent drafts, the title Wichita, which hadpreviously not been a part of the script at all, had been worked into the story. However, the obscure titlewas always being discussed about, being changed. Shortly after production began, Tom Rothman, an

exec over at Fox, came up with the title idea of Knight and Day , which they ended up sticking with.[14]

All-in-all, over ten writers contributed to the film, and the Writers Guild of America, West decided due tothis large number of contributors, to only credit Patrick O'Neill – who was the original screenwriter that

wrote and sold the script on spec back in 2004.[14] Despite delays and studio changes, producer Steve

Pink pointed to the core concept of a "shifty protagonist" and the film's original script as reasons Knight and Day overcame obstacles to release.[15] Nine other writers who worked on the film's script includedScott Frank, Laeta Kalogridis, Ted Griffin and Nick Griffin, Timothy Dowling, Dana Fox, Don Payne,

Simon Kinberg and finally director James Mangold.[14]

Casting

The film changed lead cast members multiple times while the production was mired in a period known as

"development hell".[15] Prior to the finalization of actors Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, comedian andactor Adam Sandler was offered to star in the film when it was titled Wichita, but declined explaining, "I

ust don't see me with a gun."[15] Wichita was developed under production at Revolution Studios; the film

was later moved to Sony Pictures.[15] At Sony Pictures, actors Chris Tucker and Eva Mendes wereslated to portray the two lead roles in the film; it was titled Trouble Man and intended as a romantic

vehicle film for Tucker and Mendes.[14][15]

After Tucker and Mendes dropped out of the lead roles, Diaz signed on to the film with Sony Pictures,

and actor Gerard Butler met with production staff regarding starring opposite Diaz.[15] Butler instead

decided to take on the lead role in the film The Bounty Hunter , opposite actress Jennifer Aniston.[15] TomCruise considered accepting a role in the film; at the time he was auditioning for parts in five films

including Salt , and The Tourist .[15] Cruise decided he wished to star in Knight and Day , and had a vision

for the film which included modifying the male lead character with his own ideas.[15] Other actors cast in

the film included Maggie Grace, Peter Sarsgaard, Marc Blucas, Paul Dano, Viola Davis, and Jordi Mollà.[5][16]

Financing

The film's production partners, New Regency and Dune Entertainment, offset financing for the film by

paying Tom Cruise a lower advance fee than he normally received.[6] Cruise previously garnered$20 million or higher in an advance fee, but the Los Angeles Times reported he only received $11 million

for Knight and Day .[6] Cruise will also not receive "first dollar gross", which was customary for him.[6]

This means that Cruise will not receive a share of the film's revenue, until Knight and Day funding

investors have first gained back their investment in the production.[6] In total, production costs for the film

exceeded $117 million, however with a $10 million tax credit for filming in Massachusetts, the costs weredown to $107 million.[17]


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Filming

Principal photography began on September 15, 2009 in Boston and Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Airportterminal scenes were filmed in Worcester, Massachusetts at Worcester Regional Airport. Filming also

took place in Melrose, Danvers, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.[18] Spanish cities Cadiz and Seville,as well as Austrian city Salzburg, were also chosen as locations that were used in filming in November

and December 2009.

[19]

Filming continued through late January 2010, with filming in Long Beach, California. Filming then movedto the Frenchman's Cove of Portland, Jamaica, where shooting took place for one week in February2010.

Re-shoots were done in late April 2010, in Long Beach, California, where shots of Tom Cruise riding theDucati with Cameron Diaz on the back was filmed. More re-shoots were done in late May 2010, at Silver Cup Studios in New York City for a day or two of pick-up shots.

Soundtrack

The Black Eyed Peas recorded a theme song for the movie, titled, "Someday".[20] The soundtrack toKnight and Day was released on July 9, 2010.[21] In a review of the soundtrack for Almasry Alyoum,ournalist Ahmed Ramadan commented, "The soundtrack, enjoyable and suiting to the film's actionsequences, is one of the redeeming factors of Knight and Day , with its theme song 'Someday' by The

Black Eyed Peas a cool, up-beat anthem."[22]

Marketing

Knight and Day had been set for a June 25, 2010, release date, but Fox moved its debut up two days to

June 23;[23] in the face of poor initial tracking numbers.[24][25] The New York Observer analyzed themarketing for the film, which included an attempt at pushing a "viral video" of the two main stars;

ournalist Christopher Rosen commented on the desperation level of the publicity campaign, "themarketing for this thing has seemed more intrusive and desperate than any other big-ticket release in

some time."[25] In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Fox co-president of marketing Tony Sella

discussed the publicity strategy for the film.[26] Sella explained that the film was marketed towards older moviegoers, "If you're over 40, this movie was a rock star – the whole concept, the Nick and Nora of itall. It's a grown up film. That was the whole theory behind selling the film, that it was a cool, adult movie,hence the poster and the graphics behind it. We wouldn't have called it 'Knight and Day' if we weren't

going for an adult audience."[26] Film producer Don Carmody commented negatively regarding the film'strailer, calling it "dull", and stated the film would not do well because of the age of its two stars, "CameronDiaz I think was a star, but she's no longer a star. Some of those stars are getting a little up there (in

age)."[27] The Hollywood Reporter noted, "potential viewers remain startlingly indifferent to whether theyactually end up seeing it. And attention thus far is still drawn mostly by those under 25, which indicates

that the fans who grew up with star Tom Cruise have moved on."[24]

Fox attempted to increase word of mouth advertising for the film by showing a sneak preview on June

19, 2010;[28] the Los Angeles Times reported the same day that pre-release surveys determined that the

film was likely to become a commercial flop.[6] Projections indicated that the film would only make

$20 million at the box office;[6] the film cost $125 million to produce.[1][2] Fox production President EmmaWatts commented of the film's commercial prospects, "We aren't exactly where we hoped we would

be."[6] The Los Angeles Times noted, "In addition, Cruise and Diaz are not as popular with younger moviegoers, who often drive big opening weekends in the summer. ... Among teenage and college-age

males, the movie is barely registering, according to people who have seen the survey results."[6]

New York magazine reported the film was "tracking miserably" prior to its first week.[1] New York magazine


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reported that an issue with Knight and Day was, "one of the film's biggest handicaps: its star, Tom

Cruise".[1] A Fox official commented to New York magazine regarding the film's pre-release polling data,

"at those numbers, we can't open the movie right now. Hopefully, they'll change in the next few days."[1]

Upon hearing that tracking data on June 22, 2010, showed the film was not likely to produce revenueover $30 million in its first five days on screen, a Fox executive told TheWrap he was "confounded", andcommented, "Tracking says one thing, but our sneak previews this weekend said something totally

different. ... but if you look at the empirical data, we're nowhere."[29] New York magazine reported thatthe day prior to the film's release, a long scene from Knight and Day was made available on iTunes, in

an attempt to improve the lackluster 28–31 percent "definite interest" level of the movie.[30] After resultswere reported from the film's initial debut, Fox distribution executive Bruce Synder commented to The

Hollywood Reporter , "It's an adult movie opening on a Wednesday, but we opened it there and snuck iton Saturday because we believe the word-of-mouth will be good, so we're set for a pretty good opening

weekend. Remember, it's an original, adult movie, which we expect will run for quite a while." [28]

Box office

Knight and Day performed poorly at the box office in its debut, with a take of US$3.8 million the day after its initial June 23, 2010, release in revenue from ticket sales in the United States and Canada. [9][31] This

was less than the film Toy Story 3, which earned $13 million at the box office on the same day.[9] Knight

and Day did not place within the top 50 all-time Wednesday film openings.[9] An analysis of the openingday results by Box Office Mojo noted it was the worst attended action film debut for Tom Cruise since his

appearance in the 1986 Legend .[32] It was the lowest-grossing opening day for Cruise in a leading role

since his performance in the 1992 film Far and Away .[32] Cruise's last starring role prior to Knight and

Day , in the 2008 film Valkyrie, generated $8.5 million on its opening day.[32] The previous film with

Cameron Diaz and Cruise as the lead roles, Vanilla Sky , garnered $8.9 million on its opening day.[32]

Moira Macdonald of The Seattle Times characterized the film's initial revenue results as "a box-office

disappointment"; [33] Lou Lumenick of New York Post commented, "Not great numbers";[34] journalistRoger Friedman noted for Hollywood News, "Bad reviews didn't help. K&D has registered only 52percent on Rotten Tomatoes. Even those reviews counted as positive weren't so good. They were

stretching.";[35] Nicole Sperling of Entertainment Weekly noted, "audiences just aren't showing up the

way Fox might have hoped";[36] and Ben Fritz of Los Angeles Times called the film's debut a "soft"

opening,[37] and commented, "It wasn't a good first day or night at the box office for Knight and Day ."[9]

The film's revenues dropped nine percent on its second day of release, earning $3.5 million in ticket

sales.[10][38] During the same period that revenues dropped for Knight and Day , ticket sales for Toy

Story only fell by three percent, The Karate Kid dropped by six percent; while other films increasedrevenues at the same time, including, Shrek Forever After , Sex and the City 2 , Get Him to the Greek ,

Killers, and Robin Hood .[39] In its first weekend, Knight and Day was paired up against Grown Ups, a

comedy film starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider.[40] TheFriday of its first weekend after release, Knight and Day took third place at the box office, behind both

Grown Ups and Toy Story 3.[11] The film brought in a total of $6.35 million on its third day of release.[41][42] Regarding the poor performance of Knight and Day in its first weekend at the box office, a Foxexecutive stated to Nikki Finke of Deadline, "It's an original movie aimed at adults that is really good. It

takes longer to catch on with audiences. And this movie is doing that."[43] In its debut outside of the U.S.,

the film earned $12.6 million.[44] Knight and Day finished its total weekend box office take with

$20.5 million – which was the worst result for an action film starring Tom Cruise in 20 years. [12][13]

Multiple sources had characterized Knight and Day as a "box office bomb" and a "flop".[12][26][45][46][47]


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Patrick Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times described the film as "the supposed sure-thing romantic

action comedy that did a belly flop at the box office".[26] Writing for Forbes, Dorothy Pomerantz

commented, "Tom Cruise's newest movie, Knight & Day , bombed at the box office".[45] Star noted that

the movie "flopped" and observed, "Tom Cruise has officially lost his mojo."[46] The New York Post

referred to it as "Flop Gun Tom".[47] The Associated Press noted that the film "fizzled" at the box office;

Salon carried the AP article with the headline, "Tom bombs while 'Toy Story 3,' Sandler soar".[12] Writing

for International Business Times, Marc Espino noted, "Cruise's superstardom isn't working for him

anymore as people no longer seem interested in seeing him on the big screen."[48] Senior box officeanalyst with Exhibitor Relations, Jeff Bock, commented to BusinessWeek regarding the poor performance of Knight and Day : "That's a big disappointment, especially for what was supposed to be a

reboot of Tom Cruise's career."[49] In July 2010 Parade Magazine listed the film as the #5 on its list of

"Biggest Box Office Flops of 2010 (So Far)."[50]

By its second week of release, Knight and Day fell to fifth place at the box office, behind The Karate

Kid .[51] During its second weekend at the box office, Knight and Day remained in fifth place, with films

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Last Airbender taking the top two spots.[52] The film's box office take

dropped 48 percent in its second weekend after release.[53]

With the opening of the film Despicable Mein the top spot at the box office in its opening weekend, Knight and Day subsequently dropped to

seventh place in ticket sales.[54]

In territories outside the United States and Canada, Knight and Day grossed an estimated

$146.5 million.[3] In an August 10, 2010 report for Box Office Mojo, Ray Subers reported, "Adding$11.3 million in 47 territories, Knight & Day showed few signs of slowing down. It had a decent$3.7 million debut in the UK, though that was less than half of what star Tom Cruise's Mission:

Impossible III opened to back in 2006. On Sunday, Knight & Day crossed the $200 million mark

overseas."[55] Its worldwide box-office earnings stand at roughly $262 million.

Critical reception

Knight and Day received mixed reviews; Rotten Tomatoes reported a rating of 53 percent "rotten" metric

based upon 199 aggregated reviews.[7] Rotten Tomatoes summarized the reviews received with,"Consensus: It's pure formula, but thanks to its breezy pace and a pair of charming performances fromTom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, Knight and Day offers some agreeably middle-of-the-road summer

action."[7] Another review aggretator, Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score from 0–100 from

reviews from mainstream critics, calculated a "mixed or average" score of 47 based on 36 reviews. [8]

The film received a negative review in Variety ; critic Justin Chang characterized the film as "ahigh-energy, low-impact caper-comedy that labors to bring a measure of wit, romance and glamour to an

overworked spy-thriller template".[56] Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter summarized his reviewof the film with, "Bottom Line: Logic and plausibility take a holiday in this nonstop actioner that counts on

stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz to sell the nonsense."[57] Honeycutt wrote of the writing, "the scriptis too lazy to develop any of its characters – and that includes the leads", and commented, "laziness

permeates the film from the inexplicable escapes to the neglected romance".[57] Knight and Day

received a rating of one and a half stars from a review by Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune; whichcriticized multiple aspects of the film, including its script, directing, cinematography, set pieces, and

action sequences.[58] Phillips concluded, "A 21st Century Charade pumped up on all the wrong steroids,Knight and Day may well suffice for audiences desperate for the bankable paradox known as thepredictable surprise, and willing to overlook a galumphing mediocrity in order to concentrate on matters

of dentistry."

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American film critic and professor Emanuel Levy was critical of the film's writing, calling it a "mindlessflick"; he noted, "The story moves at a breakneck speed, as if to conceal the incongruities in the

storytelling."[59] Levy gave the film a grade of "C", and commented, "Preposterously plotted, the saga isdominated by long, energetic, uneven action sequences, but it lacks any logic and pays minimalattention to characterization. Repetitious in structure, and with humor that more often than not missesthe mark, Knight and Day is characterized by nihilistic violence and amoral tone, which wouldn't have

mattered had the movie been witty or fun to watch."[59] The film received a rating of two stars out of four from critic Peter Howell in the Toronto Star ; the reviewer commented, "There is supposed to be romancein Knight and Day – and Diaz is up for it – but Cruise still looks as if he's taken charisma lessons from Al

Gore."[60] In a review for the Orlando Sentinel , critic Roger Moore commented, "The blase plot devices(a gadget, the nerdy guy who invented it), the bland villains, the too-fast dash through exotic locales,don't matter so long as Cruise and Diaz click and spark their scenes – chases and embraces – to life.And Cruise, hurling himself at this as if his Mission: Impossible future and indeed his whole career

depended on it, makes sure they do."[61]

The Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern commented, "Knight and Day woke me up to just howawful some summer entertainments have become. It isn't that the film is harmful, except to moviegoers'

wallets and movie lovers' morale, but that it is truly phenomenal for the purity of its incoherence."[62]

Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert rated the movie 3 stars out of 4 and wrote, "Knight and

Day aspires to the light charm of a romantic action comedy like Charade or Romancing the Stone, butwould come closer if it dialed down the relentless action. The romance part goes without saying after aMeet Cute contrived in an airport, and the comedy seems to generate naturally between Tom Cruise andCameron Diaz. But why do so many summer movies find it obligatory to inflict us with CGI overkill? I'dsorta rather see Diaz and Cruise in action scenes on a human scale, rather than have it rubbed in that

for long stretches, they're essentially replaced by animation."[63] Ty Burr of The Boston Globe stated,"The movie's a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious

about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle."[64] Writing for the Associated Press, Christy Lemirecommented, "Cruise's presence also helps keep things light, breezy and watchable when the action –

and the story itself – spin ridiculously out of control."[65]

Joshua Starnes of ComingSoon.net gave the film a rating of 6.5 out of 10, and concluded his review,"Instead of watching it, you're better off putting Knight and Day in a time capsule and singing some Don

McLean, 'cause this is the day the movie star died."[66] In a subsequent "mini review", Edward Douglasof ComingSoon.net gave the film a rating of 8 out of 10, and concluded, "The entertainment comes fromhow much fun it is watching [Cruise and Diaz] on screen together and that's what separates Knight and

Day from previous attempts at mixing romance, comedy, and action." [67] In a review for CNN, TomCharity commented, "there's a creeping anxiety about this project, a tendency to over-compensate that

speaks to underlying inadequacies."[68] Film critic Kenneth Turan commented on the performance of Cruise, "If you doubt Cruise's skills in the star department, "'Knight and Day' should make you a believer.It's hardly a perfect film, not even close, but it is the most entertaining made-for-adults studio movie of

the summer, and one of the reasons it works at all is the great skill and commitment Cruise brings to thestarring role."[69][70] Turan commented on Mangold's efforts as the film's director, "'Knight and Day' isalso fortunate to have James Mangold in charge. As he demonstrated in 'Walk the Line' and '3:10 toYuma,' Mangold is one of the few current directors who has an instinct for reasonably intelligent popular entertainment. His films don't end up on 10-best lists, but you walk out of them feeling you've gotten

what you paid for, and that is an increasingly rare commodity." [69][70]

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External links

Official website (http://www.knightanddaymovie.com/)

Knight and Day (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1013743/) at the Internet Movie Database

Knight and Day (http://www.allmovie.com/work/495346) at Allmovie

Knight and Day (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/knight_and_day/) at Rotten Tomatoes

Knight and Day (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/knightandday) at MetacriticKnight and Day (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=cruisediaz10.htm) at Box Office Mojo

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