Bland bland bland
KNIGHT AND DAY Cert. 12A
Knight and Day is a film that is exactly the sum of its parts.
A spy comedy, with Tom Cruise as relaxed as can be running around as his bread and butter action hero persona, dragging along a ditsy, past-her-best Cameron Diaz. Cruise is Roy Miller, a secret agent who finds his own agency working against him, and Diaz is simply a glamourous civilian thrown in to widen the film’s appeal.
It’s numbingly bland, and even makes cliches out of cliches. Although many might kindly dismiss it as harmless summer entertainment, elements of secular worldviews are shamelessly displayed to further embed themselves into viewers’ minds. Countless government agents are killed without conscience, and the love story that damply half-sparks between Cruise’s and Diaz’s characters is based solely on ‘fun’. One character appears to trim and regrow his moustache miraculously between shots!
