MOVIE REVIEW - Knight And Day

There is so much at the box office right now for the kids, it's great to have something good for adults at the box office this week!

That's Knight And Day. Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz star in this real fun action-thriller/romantic comedy. Action-comedies seem to be a new style of movie making that's really taken off over the past few years. A new kind of romantic comedy that doesn't rely on sappy soundtracks and syrupy story lines. Movies that men are no longer drug by the hair of the head to, all the while kicking and screaming and questioning their masculinity.

Knight And Day is the real fun story of June (Diaz) and Roy (Cruise). Roy is a Federal Secret Agent seemingly gone wrong and is being chased all around the globe by both "The Agency" and some horrible arms dealers. Both trying to catch or kill Roy and the highly secret world changing invention in his charge. Somehow the innocent June gets roped into the whole international conspiracy and the chase is on.

All the while Roy is trying to do his job or run from it, June is falling in love with Roy. This of course complicates things and makes it more fun at the same time. Has Roy gone wrong? Is June barking up the wrong tree? And will the invention end up in the wrong hands? That's Knight And Day.

I am generally not a fan of either one of our stars here. But this is terrific! Cruise much to his credit, is fun and funny, quirky and really good as the slick, but not too serious Roy. Cruise in the past year or two has discovered what we did years ago. His overacting and taking himself too serious was really getting old. Starting with Tropic Thunder, he really turned the corner and has been picking different projects, and ones that are helping him reinvent himself. Diaz too has picked a winner after picking some duds as well. She is really funny here, and does a lot with this role. Great chemistry, and a real nice story line that zips along nicely, gives Knight And Day the fuel to really charge ahead smoothly.

No matter what happens in this movie, the action, music, side characters, the great thing here is that this is Cruise and Diaz' movie. They own it. Pure and simple. The producers understood what they had and didn't let side plots or characters get in their way. It's great to see two big stars get together for a real fun summer movie that does a lot of things right.

Knight And Day. A real fun adult action comedy that delivers all that it said it would. One of the summers best movies!