Mindless fun in 'Knight and Day'

Director: James Mangold

Cast: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Viola Davis

Cruise and Diaz are given a screenplay riven with a downright daft plot and in spite of all that is wrong about the film they manage to emerge with the sort of romantic actioner that eats up a Saturday evening at the local flicks, so long as you don’t take any of it seriously.

Certainly Cruise and Diaz don’t: they seem to have grasped the stupidity of what they have been lumbered with and play it tongue-in-cheek.

Cruise plays CIA agent Roy Miller who meets June (Diaz) at a Stateside airport and subsequently finds she’s on the same flight. Only it’s a strange ‘plane since the only other passengers are a handful of men.

Still, time for a bit of flirting, interrupted while she goes to powder her nose and he kills everybody else, including the pilot. She, meanwhile, manages not to hear all the shooting and on her return he crash lands the ‘plane and they take off around the world to escape the chasing FBI.

If you like that sort of thing, the non-stop action and general commotion will thrill and delight you, but if you prefer something more stimulating for the grey cells it won’t.

Star Rating: 2/5