Movie Review: Knight and Day

Summer is always the best time to sit back and enjoy a film about charisma and on-screen chemistry, over some gun fire.

“Knight and Day” follows the old-fashioned adventure of Roy Miller (Tom Cruise), whose real name is Knight, and June Havens (Cameron Diaz).

Roy is a super agent who wants to secure Simon Feck (Paul Dano), the inventor of an everlasting battery called the Zephyr. June accidentally bumped into Roy in the airport as she prepares to fly home to attend her sister’s wedding. Roy’s enemy, Agent Fitzgerald (Peter Saarsgard), thought that June is working together with Roy and thus planned an airplane attacked.

The chaotic fight in the plane caused Roy to kill the pilots accidentally. A plane crash then followed at a large cornfield in Kansas.

Before sending June home, Roy reminded her not to reveal her relationship with him and to stay away from any strange officials and vehicles. June woke up in her bed the next day and attended her sister’s dress fitting. She was then confronted by a group of men who identified themselves as the intelligence agents. Roy came in to the scene to rescue June from her captivation and the situation breaks into a gunfight, in which Roy killed a number of the agents. June found a chance to flee to her boyfriend, Rodney (Marc Blucas), a firefighter.

Roy found her in the fire station. He handcuffed her and shot Rodney in a specific non-vital area. Roy also told him that this would all make him a hero and virtually guarantee his promotion to lieutenant. Roy tried his best to explain to June that she will be safer if she stays with him.

June finally decided to follow Roy and they headed to look for Simon at his safe house. They found that Simon was gone after arriving there and they were confronted by a bunch of armed fighters belonging to Antonio (Jordi Mollà), a Spanish arms dealer.

June was drugged and drifted in and out of consciousness between their capture and escape from Antonio's men, and Miller brings her to an island that is off the grid, which Miller uses as a safe house. June then woke in the island and received a phone call from her sister’s number. They were then located by the CIA.

After being knocked out again, June was brought onto a train to Alps and met Simon there, as well as an assassin. An interesting fight followed and a train killed the assassin in the end.

The three of them arrived in a hotel in Spain and Roy left for dinner with mysteriously beautiful women. June thought that Roy was going to sell the battery.

After a confrontation with the CIA agents, June decided to bring the CIA agents to Roy by clicking a pen that transmits notification. After leading the CIA agents on a chase, Miller is apparently shot and falls into a river.

Upon returning home, June remembered the address indicated on Roy’s iPhone. She found his parents living there and got to know Roy’s real name as Matthew Knight. June then self-recorded a message saying that she has the Zephyr with her. She was soon caught by Antonio’s men. She is drugged with truth serum (which turn out to be more like a sex arousal) before being rescued by Roy, who was tracking Fitzgerald, who was delivering Simon to Antonio.

While chasing Fitzgerald, Roy saves Simon from a gunshot. He handed the battery to Fitzgerald who fled with a helicopter. Simon said that Zephyr was actually a failure and an explosion follows in the air. Roy collapsed and was sent to the hospital. June managed to bring him out from the hospital and drives away with the rebuilt GTO.

After Roy wakes up asking what day it is, June kisses him and says it's someday. This is a reference from the start of the movie that they both have things they want to do someday, and June begins to drive towards Cape Horn.

Some critics said this movie is the kind of thing that was big 20 years ago but has been going out of fashion for a while and there's a whiff of desperation about the whole thing. Audience may be expecting more actions and fighting from the movie rather than the flirting of two stars on the screen.

Not because of the quality of the movie itself, but just the kind of film it is, there was some parts that were done over exaggerated such as drugging June for about four times. Some say Tom Cruise could have done a better job instead of leaving behind a legacy that swings in between Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow or Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man, each enhancing the other.

Overall, “Knight and Day” wants to do that, but they were not there, yet.