Remarkably, it is also, for a time, reasonably diverting for anyone willing to jettison everything they know about love, espionage, and narrative cohesion. The tale begins at the Wichita airport, where we meet June and learn exactly two things about her: first, that she restores vintage muscle cars so males in the audience will find her irresistible ; and second, that she has a bad case of little-sister-getting-married-before-her so females in the audience will find her sympathetic.
On her way through security, June repeatedly runs into Roy, himself a fetching grin sandwiched between windbreaker and sunglasses. June is bumped from her flight but is subsequently put back on it, only to discover there are just a handful of passengers on the plane, Roy included. The reasons for June's bumping and de-bumping are obscure, an early sign that the screenplay--credited to newcomer Patrick O'Neill, but subsequently rewritten by half a dozen others--will not infrequently be divided against itself.
June and Roy flirt lightly until she visits the lavatory, at which point the other passengers, along with both pilots and the navigator, all try to assassinate Roy. Happily, he is much better at this kind of thing than they are, so he kills them instead, crash lands the jet himself, warns June about the nameless baddies who will soon come looking, and gently drugs her.
She wakes the next morning in her own bed, with friendly Roy-notes offering life-saving advice scattered around her apartment. To describe such plotting as ridiculous might sprain the term itself.
Yet, for those of generous spirit and easily suspended disbelief you may wish to re-read the previous paragraph before deciding whether you qualify , the first few reels of Knight and Day offer a kind of giddy, kinetic nonsense.
Cruise, still eager to erase his image as self-serious Scientologist and overplayed inamorata, punctures his longstanding action persona with sly wit and self-effacing charm. Where has this fellow been since Risky Business? The two are even supplied with a handful of moderately inspired gags, the best of which doubles as an ingenious way to cut down on the studio costs of a big aerial escape scene. But in the end--or, rather, by the midpoint--it's not enough. Believing Havens is merely stressed and is playing out a fantasy, Rodney takes her out and she tells him everything that has happened to her, though he still does not understand.
Miller then arrives and pretends to take Havens hostage while holding everyone else at gunpoint, fleeing with her. Miller explains that Havens is safer with him and she agrees to follow him as they go to pick up Simon Feck Paul Dano , a genius inventor who has created a perpetual energy battery called the Zephyr. Traveling to Brooklyn , Miller and Havens discover that Feck has fled from the warehouse he was hiding in, leaving a clue for Miller about his location. After again being drugged, Havens drifts in and out of consciousness between their capture and escape from Quintana's men, and Miller brings her to an island that is off-the-grid , which Miller uses as a safe house.
Accepting a call from her sister after leaving in frustration, Havens accidentally leads Quintana's men straight to the hideaway.
They try to kill Miller and Havens with a unmanned aerial vehicle. Before they escape by helicopter, Havens is knocked-out by Miller at the neck since she is afraid of flying. Miller reunites with Feck and they, with Havens, get on a train heading for Austria. But Miller and Havens fight him and he is killed by another train. Arriving at Salzburg , the three book into a hotel and Miller later leaves to meet with a henchwoman of Quintana to make a deal.
She is then picked up by Fitzgerald and C. Director Isabel George Viola Davis , who reveal that Miller was using her at the airport to smuggle in the Zephyr when they bumped into each other and convince her that he doesn't love her. They also tell her that Miller is the traitor and plans to trade the battery with Quintana.
Heartbroken, Havens allows the C. Miller escapes with the battery, but is seemingly shot on the rooftops and falls to his death in the river. Fetch is taken into custody afterwards to Schwedelbach, Germany, though it is later revealed that Fitzgerald has been the real traitor all along and he captures Fetch. Returning home, Havens heads to an address she remembered from Miller's iPhone , where she finds his parents and learns that his real name is Matthew Knight.
They believe their son, a former Army sergeant and Eagle Scout , is dead; but they are fabulously wealthy from winning lotteries and sweepstakes they don't remember entering. Leaving a message on her own answering machine that she has the Zephyr, she is captured by Quintana's men and taken to Sevilla , Spain. She is drugged with truth serum before being rescued by Miller, who was tracking Fitzgerald, who was delivering Feck to Quintana.
Chaos erupts throughout the streets and Quintana is killed by a bull stampede. At the docks, Miller saves Feck from a bullet wound after handing over the Zephyr in a small pouch. Feck later reveals that the battery is unstable and it explodes, killing Fitzgerald.
Miller collapses from the gunshot and is hospitalized in Washington D. George apologizes to Miller about him and Fitzgerald, but tells him to let go of Havens and return to the C. Miller is later drugged by a nurse, who turns out to be Havens.
A: Everyone wants the Zephyr. Q: Wow, that sounds like a dangerous item. I would bet that if it became unstable and exploded, it could probably wipe out the Eastern Seaboard. A: A lot, actually. How is this fair to compare to legitimate duos? Also, how is this a duo when Oates only sang lead on one of their 29 Top hits?
Admittedly, Big Bam Boom is a great album. A: The first hour of the film is actually pretty fun. One of the opening scenes takes place on an flight from Wichita to Boston which turns out to be quite thrilling, if you're someone who finds the rapid decent of a commercial airliner thrilling and not nauseating because you have a flight scheduled anytime in the next month.
A: There are two. June Diaz is safely at home after a whirlwind tour of the world and she makes a phone call declaring that she has the Zephyr.
In fact, she doesn't. She only says this because getting captured is the only way she can find Roy, whom she misses, and will almost certainly rescue her. Also, Roy has a habit of drugging June when she can't handle a situation. When he runs out of drugs, he uses a Vulcan nerve pinch to knock her out for a few hours.
When did Star Trek fiction seep so deeply into the fabric of our lives that it's accepted as reality? Q: Is there a scene in Knight and Day that rivals the one where Cruise dances around in his underwear? What movie was that?
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