How often would you expect a 48 year old yesteryear hunk and a 38 year old yesteryear damsel to sizzle the silver screen? Rarely?? Well, in Bollywood, yes! but you expect by Hollywood standards, they may come up with something nice. With Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz; it becomes all that more probable. That's the optimism which made us pay for the obscene fee of the weekend tickets at South City's Fame Cinemas on a weekend. Alas! This is a season of disappointments. It turned out to be damp squib like the Brazil's performance at the World Cup.
The best way to explain this shit of a movie is to say - "Its a lame attempt at Rajnikanth from Hollywood". Tom is a CIA spy, who acts as a comic book superhero and is trying to save a magic battery (lol !). He is so lame at it that you burst into laughter at his histrionics and action scenes. Cameron competes well and doesn't do properly one thing a chick is supposed to do in an action thriller - look a sexy hot bimbo. She looks old, really old. For people like us who grew on "Mask" and "There is something about Mary" image, this is shattering of a dream.
And why was it named "Knight and Day" ? There was one reference that Tom's character's real sir name is Knight. But Knight and day is not a clever play on the phrase - Day and Night.
In an act from an imbecile's book, Tom defies all sense and walks amidst a rain of bullet's to prove his love for Cameroon. And that is the scene you carry home in your mind - to recall whenever you wanna take a dig or mention a stoopid joke as a conversation starter.
Tom! Oh! Tom! There is only one Rajni and there will always be one Rajni. Skip this Movie!!.
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