Knight and Day
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 23, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
14
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin Wilson
An action comedy that works. But it’s also a surprisingly poignant romance. This is the summer flick you’ve been waiting for. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Diaz has one of the most winning grins in the movies. Basically, what I wanted was more of it. Some of that Cary Grant dialog. More flirtation. More of a feeling the characters, not the production, were the foreground. More of the stars. Read full review
75
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
It's both straight-faced spy film and sly spy spoof. That's a difficult balancing act, but director James Mangold gets it exactly right. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Diaz works that trademark mix of ditziness, sexiness, and brassiness. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
The movie is at its best when the audience is in the dark and, because our perspective is June's and she doesn't know what the hell is going on until well into the proceedings, that's when things are the most entertaining. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
In the end, Knight and Day isn't really about much of anything besides having a good time or perhaps the meaning of Tom Cruise-ness in the universe. Read full review
75
ObserverSara Vilkomerson
This movie will undoubtedly be compared to the Brangelina mashup Mr. & Mrs. Smith, and with good reason-it has the same combo of quips and physical tricks, the same somewhat overwhelming chemistry between its two leads. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia Puig
It's a quintessential movie hybrid: a romantic thriller with exciting high-speed chases, brisk comedy and exotic scenery. Read full review
75
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
If you can settle into its odd, low-key groove, I think you'll find it's a light pop beverage that goes down easy during one of the lamest blockbuster summers in recent memory. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
How you feel about Knight and Day will depend largely on your feelings about Cruise. If you can't divorce his performance from his off-screen antics, well, that's a problem, here and elsewhere. If you're willing to watch what's on-screen and leave it at that, there's fun to be had. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazinePete Hammond
Stylish, globe hopping, action-packed comedy that starts at full blast and never lets up. Read full review
70
TimeMary Pols
Yet he just kept going and going, and the slick, proficient Knight and Day is proof that you should never count Cruise out. Read full review
65
MovielineStephanie Zacharek
Nothing Cruise does seems to come from the inside -- every eye crinkle, every grimace, every brow furrow seems plucked from the air, collected from the universe around him and bent to do his bidding. Maybe that’s one kind of acting. But it’s not cool. Never will be. Read full review
63
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
The story is kind of all over the place, scatterbrained without being madcap (This one feels tinkered with, reshoots, re-edits.). Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy Burr
The movie’s a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
It's hardly a perfect film, not even close, but it is the most entertaining made-for-adults studio movie of the summer, and one of the reasons it works at all is the great skill and commitment Cruise brings to the starring role. Read full review
58
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
Knight and Day never makes sense from the opening credits. Heck, the title is only half-explained, and not as cleverly as the pun deserves. It's a movie that never gestated beyond the pitch: Glamorous stars in exotic locales, shooting and driving their way to safety through a gantlet of bad guys chasing a MacGuffin. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
In this oddly uninvolving caper, the size of skulls makes its own statement: The producers assume that audience interest in movie stars is bigger than audience interest in characters. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
Laziness permeates the film from the inexplicable escapes to the neglected romance. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin Chang
A high-energy, low-impact caper-comedy that labors to bring a measure of wit, romance and glamour to an overworked spy-thriller template. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
Despite its impressive pedigree and unshakable assurance, Knight and Day is nothing more or less than an average popcorn flick. Read full review
50
Rolling StonePeter Travers
It strikes me that their teasing and one-upmanship are more brother and sister at play than lovers in heat. Cruise and Diaz are in it for the action rush. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
Mangold's larger problem is trying to hold together a movie that jerks about in tone as much as it does location, veering between grisly humour and cutesy sentiments. Read full review
50
SalonAndrew O'Hehir
Roy is like a meta-Cruise or a Cruise pastiche; even the disturbing, stalkerish aspects of his character seem as if they were constructed from tabloid stories about the actor's marriage, his religious affiliation, his sexual identity. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
With all the money expended on this movie, couldn’t anybody come up with a few good lines in between all the kabooms? Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Cruise is thrown into many sticky situations, with legions of trained assassins surrounding him on all sides, but he never once suggests that things aren’t entirely under control. It’s profoundly boring to watch a hero without weaknesses; after all, even Superman has Kryptonite. Read full review
40
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
Frankly, I don't like to be bullied, and bullying is exactly what Knight and Day – overly cute and overconvinced of its own cool – does best. Read full review
40
SlateDana Stevens
The character of Roy Miller is so quintessentially Cruise-ian that he skirts the edges of self-conscious parody. Read full review
40
EmpireIan Nathan
They make a fun duo, but none of the constituent genres work in this overbearing action-rom-com. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Knight and Day may well suffice for audiences desperate for the bankable paradox known as the predictable surprise, and willing to overlook a galumphing mediocrity in order to concentrate on matters of dentistry. Read full review
38
New York PostLou Lumenick
It would also help if they were given some dialogue that was actually funny, or at least more clever than the lines provided to Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl in the distressingly similar "Killers" from earlier this month. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. Scott
A loud, seemingly interminable, and altogether incoherent entry in the preposterous and proliferating “action-comedy” genre. Read full review
30
Village VoiceDan Kois
There's never been a particularly crisp line between intense, SUPER-AWESOME Tom Cruise and the characters he plays. In Knight and Day, his age-old cool curdles into motormouthed neediness. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Cruise and Diaz have worked together before (in Vanilla Sky), but this is their first summer-movie pairing, and their star qualities are so similar--dazzling looks, good comedic chops, complete emotional vacuity--that together, instead of romantic chemistry they generate a sort of giddy, blinding falseness. Read full review
30
The New YorkerDavid Denby
We don’t ask for much from this kind of movie, but Knight and Day tramples on our desire for just enough plausibility to release the fun. It makes us feel like fools for wanting to be entertained by froth. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Too bad, though, that whenever the characters stand still to talk, Knight and Day induces stupor in the viewer. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith Uhlich
This smug and callous action-comedy is about nothing but teeth. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The source of this movie's energy is near-perpetual desperation. You can see it in Tom Cruise's fixed grin, and in the mad proliferation of unspecial effects. Read full review
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