CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz Meet Cute in High-Octane ‘Knight and Day’
CHICAGO – Whenever there is a audacious and entertaining action thriller like “Knight and Day,” how do the characters stay so calm? Cameron Diaz and Tom Cruise are shot at, nearly blown up, asked to drive and leap around like lunatics, yet remain perfectly white-toothed calm. A normal human reaction would be ‘Oh my gaaaaaaaaaawd!”
Rating: 3.5/5.0 |
Tom Cruise is Roy Miller, super CIA spy, who connects with ordinary citizen June Havens (Cameron Diaz) in a Wichita airport. Using her to transport an ultra-secret invention through security, Miller thinks that will be the last time he’ll need her. But it turns out that this spy is being shadowed by other CIA agents, led by Agent Fitzgerald (a deliciously oily Peter Sarsgaard).
It turns out that Miller has gone rogue, in an attempt to protect the invention that he thinks is being stolen by Agent Fitzgerald. So when the shadowing CIA puts June back on Miller’s flight, the real chase begins. Miller must disarm every passenger on the flight and make it look like nothing to the unsuspecting June. She does start to suspect something, though, when Miller crash lands the airplane in a corn field.
From Boston to New York to a small island in the tropics to Austria and finally Spain, the CIA and evil organized crime go after the precious invention, and Roy Miller must elude them, while at the same time keeping tabs on his new partner, June Havens. Is this any way for two people to “meet cute”?
directed by James Mangold. Rated “PG-13”
Photo credit: Frank Masi for © Twentieth Century Fox |