Knight and Day was recently released on the 6th August 2010 in London and is now showing in most cinemas around the United Kingdom from 20th August 2010 onwards. The movie stars Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, making the movie a romantic comedy with some action packed moments and high flying stunts. Is this movie popular? Some may say it is and it isn't.
Knight and Day's Storyline
Cameron Diaz plays June Havens who is boarding a flight to get back home to her sister's wedding when Roy Miller, played by Tom Cruise bumps into her. June finds her life turned upside down when things start to go wrong and Miller turns out to be a secret agent who is fighting to protect a powerful piece of technology. June is catapulted all over the country and the world with Miller. She is literally thrown into his arms and then finds herself falling in love with him. The story is comicly romantic with a taste of foolish nonsense along the way.
Knight and Day's Filming Locations
Knight and Day's airport scenes were filmed at Worcester Regional Airport. Most of the filming was taken in Melrose, Danvers and New Bedford, Massachusetts, but Spanish cities like Cadiz and Seville were also part of the film's location settings. Filming, also, took place in the Austrian city of Salzburg where Roy Miller (Cruise) and June Havens (Diaz) are filmed at a hotel in Salzburg. Some interesting action and stunts are seen in Knight and Day's Salzburg location, which makes it more interesting to watch.
Was Knight and Day a Success?
Knight and Day made $3.8 million in the United States and Canada, which is not a great success compared to other movies like Toy Story 3, which earned $13 million at box office on the same day as Knight and Day. Apparently, Knight and Day was the worst action film debut for Tom Cruise today.
Knight and Day's Storyline
Cameron Diaz plays June Havens who is boarding a flight to get back home to her sister's wedding when Roy Miller, played by Tom Cruise bumps into her. June finds her life turned upside down when things start to go wrong and Miller turns out to be a secret agent who is fighting to protect a powerful piece of technology. June is catapulted all over the country and the world with Miller. She is literally thrown into his arms and then finds herself falling in love with him. The story is comicly romantic with a taste of foolish nonsense along the way.
Knight and Day's Filming Locations
Knight and Day's airport scenes were filmed at Worcester Regional Airport. Most of the filming was taken in Melrose, Danvers and New Bedford, Massachusetts, but Spanish cities like Cadiz and Seville were also part of the film's location settings. Filming, also, took place in the Austrian city of Salzburg where Roy Miller (Cruise) and June Havens (Diaz) are filmed at a hotel in Salzburg. Some interesting action and stunts are seen in Knight and Day's Salzburg location, which makes it more interesting to watch.
Was Knight and Day a Success?
Knight and Day made $3.8 million in the United States and Canada, which is not a great success compared to other movies like Toy Story 3, which earned $13 million at box office on the same day as Knight and Day. Apparently, Knight and Day was the worst action film debut for Tom Cruise today.
Some critics say that Knight and Day was not an overall success, because of the way the film was made. It had scenes in the film where June was being put to sleep by Miller, because she couldn't handle the stress and then waking up in different locations wearing different clothes each time, which is said to be very silly. The New York Post rated Knight and Day with one and half stars out of four. Lou Lumenick wrote "....this is a big, dumb summer movie with no apparent ambition other than plugging a hole in a studio's schedule because its faded star happened to be available for a few weeks." Entertainment Weekly gave Knight and Day a C+ and compared it to the 2010 film Killers. Of course not all critics were bad, as the Chicago Sun-Times rated the movie 3 stars out of 4 and said, "Knight and Day aspires to the light charm of a romantic action comedy like Charade or Romancing the Stone, but would come closer if it dialed down the relentless action." The filmed needed more romancing moments in it rather than action.
The Guardian in London gave the film 2 stars out of 5. Peter Bradshaw wrote in his article and said, "the movie begins to run very low on gas, and it demonstrates, inadvertently, that an action caper like this really does need high-quality gags, and real human interest between the leads, if it is going to hold its own, and Knight and Day is light on both." It seems the film had a problem with romantic interaction between the characters.
So, Knight and Day was an average success for some viewers both in London and the United States, but still it will still be viewed by many of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz fans no matter what critics will say.
The Guardian in London gave the film 2 stars out of 5. Peter Bradshaw wrote in his article and said, "the movie begins to run very low on gas, and it demonstrates, inadvertently, that an action caper like this really does need high-quality gags, and real human interest between the leads, if it is going to hold its own, and Knight and Day is light on both." It seems the film had a problem with romantic interaction between the characters.
So, Knight and Day was an average success for some viewers both in London and the United States, but still it will still be viewed by many of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz fans no matter what critics will say.
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