It shouldn’t matter that it’s really Tom Cruise climbing the actual tallest building in the world, leaping out of windows and sprinting horizontally across the face of the Burj Khalifa, a half-mile above the ground in Dubai.
With today’s special effects, the filmmakers could have recreated that scene shot for shot using models and green screen and the viewer would be none the wiser. Hell, most viewers of Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol probably assume that’s how it was done anyway.
On her show last week, Oprah Winfrey referred to Knight and Day — the new Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy — as a perfect date movie. And that about sums up the appeal of this ridiculous but fun mash-up of James Bond and Romancing the Stone.
You don’t watch this movie to dissect the craft or to seek some insight into the human condition. You watch it while sharing a tub of popcorn and an overpriced Coke with your best girl (or guy) and you hope that you’ll both walk out with a smile on your face.
On that front, Knight and Day accomplishes its mission.
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