Knight and Day 2010

Amy Nicholson, I.E. Weekly: An action star who doesn't glower -- what a relief! Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: A director and a couple of movie stars, however, can go only so far on fumes. Read more

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: The movie... get(s) saved by the surprising charm and easy rapport generated by Cruise and Diaz as an odd couple bouncing from one exotic locale to another... Read more

Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Knight and Day woke me up to just how awful some summer entertainments have become. It isn't that the film is harmful, except to moviegoers' wallets and movie lovers' morale, but that it is truly phenomenal for the purity of its incoherence. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Apparently it's OK to have numerous corpses in a PG-13 movie, as long as none of them have names. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Sadly, everything is much simpler than it seems. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Mangold, working from a script by Patrick O'Neill, accelerates events in a way that is either a perfect representation of how current action films are made or a demonstration of everything that's wrong with movies today. Maybe it's both. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The movie's a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Cruise and Diaz have worked together before, but this is their first summer-movie pairing, and their star qualities are so similar that together, instead of romantic chemistry they generate a sort of giddy, blinding falseness. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: The people who made Knight and Day may think they're giving audiences what they want but what they're really saying is: This is what audiences deserve. Read more

Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: Cruise and Diaz are both easy to look at and they work well together. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Give in to the ridiculousness, and Knight and Day is frisky fun. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Knight and Day is ultimately too relentlessly silly for its own good. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: At least they're not Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher in Killers. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: What drags Knight and Day back to Earth is the reluctance to fully commit to the zaniness. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: If you doubt Cruise's skills in the star department, Knight and Day should make you a believer. Read more

Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News: After so many bad romance movies, it's a treat to see genuine sparks fly between two major stars. That the budding relationship evolves over the course of bullets, die-hard assassins and chiseled torsos increases the pleasure. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A motorcycle chase through the streets of Spain during the running of the bulls is a great idea. A motorcycle chase through the streets of Spain during the running of computer-generated bulls is not. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: Jumpy, unmotivated, and senseless. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It just keeps charging forward, jumping from continent to continent, introducing villains in shifts (including the shifty villain Peter Sarsgaard) and blowing things up with panache. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Patrick O'Neill's script is so convinced of its own cleverness, you'll be halfway through before you wonder if you're missing something. You're not. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: One of those movies that requires you to accept that every single time a character is presented with a choice, he or she will make the worst and most inexplicable one. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Actor turned screenwriter Patrick O'Neill should thank his lucky stars -- both of them -- that Cruise and Diaz signed on for this. They have two of the most infectious grins in the business and their good humor puts this over. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: The locales are luxe, the banter witty, the bullets fly. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's intended to be enjoyable without overtaxing the brain, and it easily achieves that goal. Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: Beyond implausible, but loads of fun thanks to the chemistry of the leads. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The wonder is that Cruise and Diaz are effective enough in their roles that they're not overwhelmed by all the commotion surrounding them. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Knight and Day rises or falls on how you feel about the body-and-soul chemistry between Cruise and Diaz, who first teamed in 2001's Vanilla Sky... their teasing and one-upmanship are more brother and sister at play than lovers in heat. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Cruise retains an unusual charisma and a natural feeling for the camera. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Knight and Day is a high-functioning entertainment machine, guaranteed to please just about everyone who isn't determined to be grumpy. Read more

Dana Stevens, Slate: Cruise, for his part, can still dependably produce unlimited quantities of Tom Cruise-ness, a natural resource undiminished and virtually unchanged since its discovery in 1983. The question for the 2010 audience is whether we have any use for it anymore. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Cruise and Diaz share one indifferent smooch. They come off less like potential lovers than amiable traveling companions. Read more

Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Knight and Day is an action comedy that works. But it's also a surprisingly poignant romance. This is the summer flick you've been waiting for. Read more

Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: By the finale, it's hard to shake the sense that the movie has already expired, and everyone involved [is] just trying to prop it up, "Weekend at Bernie's"-style, long enough to heave it over the 100-minute mark. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A little more time developing why these strangers come to care for each other might have helped, and ultimately, it's a failure of script more than performances. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: The movie is based in America, but travels to Spain and Austria, locations that were evidently chosen for tax considerations and not for any serious filmmaking intent. Read more

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: The slick, proficient Knight and Day is proof that you should never count Cruise out. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz! Tom and Cam! Cruise and Diaz! Together again! Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: We've seen all this before in any number of disposable Hollywood products, but there's something particularly odious about it here given Cruise and Diaz's black-hole lack of chemistry. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: It's a quintessential movie hybrid: a romantic thriller with exciting high-speed chases, brisk comedy and exotic scenery. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: A high-energy, low-impact caper-comedy that labors to bring a measure of wit, romance and glamour to an overworked spy-thriller template. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: It's both straight-faced spy film and sly spy spoof. That's a difficult balancing act, but director James Mangold exactly right. Read more