Knight and Day: Tom Cruise as a guy who's lost his mind? There's a stretch!

Perpetually unlucky at love, June thinks her fortunes might have changed when she meets the mysterious Roy. But she might be in for more than she bargained for as it turns out Roy is a highly trained government agent that has apparently gone rogue and holds in his possession a secret device that could change the world.

For the first part of this film, you were fully engaged in what was happening on screen. It was hard to tell if Tom Cruise’s Roy was an agent who had flown the coop (mentally and physically) or if he was just a good guy who had been framed, Cameron Diaz was believable as June, the charming girl next door who was stuck in the middle of a mental exercise of being attracted to Roy but having that attraction put her in constant mortal danger. To top it off, the action was a mile a minute as the audience was inundated with a plane crash, a car chase and a number of fist and gun fights all within the first hour of screen time. Unfortunately the second half of the movie became mired in painful predictability story-wise via the use of prototypical plot devices featured in action comedies (such as True Lies), and a truly lackluster romance between the two leads. Try as they might, Cruise and Diaz had all the chemistry of oil and water, which meant the audience had nothing emotionally to connect with in Knight and Day.

All of the star power in the world could not save the movie from being nothing more than a cold, clone of an action comedy.

Grade: C-