Knight And Day
Cruise and Diaz – this combination is not the first time successfully, and “Knight and Day” might better or worse, become a summer blockbuster, because the agents action comedy by James Mangold, is typical popcorn cinema that one can do that despite a cascade of weaknesses and cinematic embarrassments.
James Mangold categorized as a director is difficult. He has specialized in Hollywood popcorn movie, but the quality of his films is mixed. After the great Johnny Cash biopic “Walk The Line” he made himself the terrible starters “death train to Yuma” – a Western Klamotte, bursting with the screenplay. Anyone who has endured to the end, holding his stomach with laughter, given all the involuntary humor.
Maybe this time he has thought that with Cruise and Diaz’s not much to go wrong. This couple is the epitome of simple, straightforward entertainment product for mass production are available for wit. Of course, they do the same this time. Cruise plays a renegade agent, any gizmo that serves as a means to an end, to protect against two rival intelligence agencies. As he mowed down all the occupants of an airplane, he meets a young mechanic (Diaz) know, and because now knows what he is up, it may not let her out of her eyes. After inserting the Stockholm syndrome both draw wild ballernd around the world. That is all. That’s all there to content not to say, there are basically no content.
Jumbo jets are forced landing in cornfields, there is rapid highway chases, motorcycle chases, bull chases and foot chases. There is much shot and it flies a lot with a large wheel in the air, and at times can also catch his breath, we may in the meantime a sunny beach scene, which acts as an ice cream style advertising, stare at the perfect bodies of the protagonists.
Cruise and Diaz smiling and grinning incessantly, and even if Cruise is now once again fallen down somewhere, so you theoretically should fear for his every bone, sit hairstyle, clothes and the obligatory sunglasses perfectly. Of course, that’s all funny unintentionally, but “Knight and Day” has something lacking in the “death train”: The film does not take itself seriously. He is a comedy, and he also tries not to be something else.
This is exactly what saves the ham: the stupid script is enriched with enough witty dialogue to actually be entertaining and amusing. What is inexcusable but Mangold’s attempt to CGI effects in the SFX-inflation is installed which obviously blew their budget. Originally a Stierhatz in Spain to be turned with real bulls, but after several accidents, said from the competent mayor. Mangold did not yet abandon the scene – and install read pixels animals today would fail even in a video game than dilettantism.
