Knight and Day Trailer Review

"No one follows us or I kill myself and then her"

This single quote alone, from the new movie Knight and Day, starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, does a very good job at explaining the ridiculous, awkward, and outrageousness of this movie.

Forever burned into this generations pop culture is the day Tom Cruise decided to jump on a couch and profess his love for Katie Holmes. The media really did a number on Cruise after all the questionable appearances on television and basically portrayed him as this "crazy person". But through those tough times Cruise has been slowly making a comeback. First with Mission Impossible 3, courtesy of J.J. and company and his amazing comedic work in Tropic Thunder, where he played Les Grossman, an oversized, foul mouthed producer, funding a film that was already in debt three days into shooting.

(The latter has just earned Cruise a spin-off film.)

Now comes his latest; Knight and Day.

My first gut reaction to this trailer is that it really shouldn't work, I really thought Cruise was trying way to hard to be funny, where as it came so naturally in Tropic Thunder, this is just a little embarrassing. But as more full length trailers, like the one above, came to fruition I began to read into the story and characters more and came to the realization or maybe speculation of this movie being an allegory for the up hill battle Cruise is fighting to get back to being a powerhouse actor and box office champ.

I like that Cruise is taking "that crazy person" persona, the media tagged him with and is creating a character out of it, in Knight and Day. In the trailer Cruise plays, Roy Miller, a spy (actor) whose agency claims was one of their best agents (actors) until he had a full blown break with reality. Does this sound familiar to anyone? As such the agency (paparazzi) is now hunting Miller in the hopes of capturing, ruining and or ending his life as a spy (an actor). Does this sound like the paparazzi...oops sorry, I mean,... familiar to anyone...again?

The last time Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz where in a movie together was in Vanilla Sky, and while I liked the pairing there, I don't really see Cameron Diaz as a believable action star. I mean I played along with it in Charlie's Angel's but that was Charlie's Angel's.

James Mangold directs and his past work includes Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma. I would question why someone like Mangold would take a movie like this that at first, But if you look at both Walk the Line and 3:10 to Yuma, its clear he has a good eye for action and a good eye for duo's on screen that look like they are not a good match at first, but soon realize that they can't exist without one another.

Some of you may have already written this movie off, which of course your allowed to. Although this trailer review seems some what positive, my hopes are not that high for this movie. But I for one am looking forward to seeing the return of Tom Cruise and if he's gotta make fun of himself to get back there, well then kudos to you sir. Its a very ballsy move for a ballsy actor.

Knight and Day opens June 23, 2010

Dueces!
StuntmanBob