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Title: Knight and Day

Date Viewed: 7/3/10

Details:

Tom Cruise

Cameron Diaz

Peter Sarsgaard

Director: James Mangold

Score: +

The Review: A good romp; light fare. The second of two summer releases (see also Killers) with leading men as assassins or undercover spies and leading women as naïve fellow travelers caught in a complicated web -- with a mood shift into romantic comedy.

This time it's Tom Cruise as the charming, if wacky, agent Miller and Cameron Diaz as the foil June. A trail of dead bodies, nearly crashing commercial airliners, mysterious Austrian trains and magical (certainly not science-based) power sources send the two on a merry chase -- with June uncertain if Miller is actually certifiable, and those on their trail even more confused. Don't think about it too much, and it will be enjoyable.

(19-Feb-11)

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