Knight and Day

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Movie
German title Knight and Day
Original title Knight and Day
Knight and day.svg
Country of production United States
original language English , German , Spanish
Publishing year 2010
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director James Mangold
script Patrick O'Neill
production Todd Garner ,
Cathy Konrad ,
Steve Pink ,
Joe Roth
music John Powell
camera Phedon Papamichael
cut Quincy Z. Gunderson ,
Michael McCusker
occupation

Knight and Day is an American action comedy from the year 2010 with Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the lead roles. Directed by James Mangold .

action

Secret agent Roy Miller meets June Havens at the airport. He deliberately bumped into her and hid a mysterious battery, the "Zephyr", in her suitcase, in order to bring it through the security gates unseen. This battery should be able to supply a small town and be inexhaustible. Since June wants to fix an old car (an heirloom from her father) as a wedding present for her sister and she therefore has many car parts in her suitcase, the battery is not noticed. Roy bumps into it again and can retrieve the battery. First, June is told that the flight is full, even though she has a boarding pass. She will be rebooked on another flight, but Roy will still get a seat. The FBI has been watching Roy because he's a wanted secret agent. The clashes with Roy were filmed and June was believed to be an accomplice. Then it is arranged that she still gets a seat on the plane. To June's surprise, there are almost no passengers on the plane, and almost all seats are empty.

She has a chat with Roy and spills her drink when there is turbulence. While June is freshening up in the aircraft toilet, all passengers and the flight crew attack Roy. Roy manages to kill everyone, but he also kills one of the pilots who accidentally shoots the other pilot while he is dying. June didn't notice any of this in the toilet. Roy tries to explain everything to her, but she thinks it's a joke. Only when Roy disappears into the cockpit does she notice that all the other aircraft occupants are dead. Roy can land the plane on a corn field. He then gives June an anesthetic so that she falls asleep, but before that he tells her not to talk to anyone about him and to run away if someone wants to take her away. She should pay particular attention to whether she was told that she would be taken away for her own protection and that she was now safe because she would then be probably killed.

The next morning she wakes up in her apartment and cannot remember how she got home. She finds a slip of paper from Roy with instructions on what not to do. Then she drives to her sister's to try on the dress for her upcoming wedding as planned. The FBI shows up and asks her about the incident on the plane, only to explain to her that she will be taken away for her own protection and that she is now safe.

During the ride, Roy appears and frees June. The FBI agents are killed in the process. June escapes during the firefight to her ex-boyfriend Rodney, whom she tries to explain everything to during a restaurant visit. He doesn't believe her and thinks she is stressed about the wedding.

Roy finds them both, but Rodney still doesn't want to believe her. Only when Roy draws a pistol and orders everyone in the restaurant to lie on the floor does he try to help her. Roy shoots Rodney, who survives slightly injured and is later declared a hero by the media. June wants to escape first, but when Roy explains that he has to help a friend, she goes with him voluntarily.

He tells her that he and a colleague named Fitzgerald should look after an inventor named Simon Feck, who invented a sensational battery. However, Roy found out that Fitzgerald wanted to steal the battery and sell it, but no one believed him. Rather, Fitzgerald managed to reverse the truth, which is why Roy is now being persecuted.

Roy hid Simon Feck. When they go to the hiding place in a warehouse, however, Simon has disappeared.

Roy finds a message from him that contains a reference to a train, but they are surprised by numerous attackers in the warehouse: people from Antonio, a Spanish mafia dealer who is looking for the battery. At the last second they manage to escape. Roy gives June another anesthetic and she wakes up on a small island. June discovers on Roy's cell phone that it is monitoring a certain address. Roy thinks he is safe on the island, but he has forgotten June's cell phone and Antonio's people can track them down. The island is then attacked with a plane and the two have to flee with a helicopter stationed by Roy on the island.

June wakes up in a compartment of a train through Austria and meets a man who pretends to be Simon, the inventor of the battery. During the conversation with the man June receives a message from Roy that he is in the front of the locomotive with Simon (since Simon is a train fan and wants to speak to the train driver). She wants to tell Roy that Simon is with her and walks through the train. The wrong Simon follows her; in the train kitchen they meet Roy and the real Simon. Roy explains to him that the man is a dangerous assassin who is supposed to bring Antonio the battery and kill them all. Together, Roy and June manage to defeat the man and fall out the window. The three drive to a hotel in Salzburg. By chance June learns that Roy wants to meet someone in the evening. Roy asks her not to leave the hotel for security reasons, but she secretly follows him.

She sees him with a woman and hears that he wants to sell the battery. On the way to the hotel, she is intercepted by CIA director George and Roy's former partner Fitzgerald. They explain to her that Roy is lying, everything is the other way around and that he wants to sell the battery, which the overheard conversation seems to confirm.

They give her a transmitter disguised as a pen to press when she is sure Roy has the battery. She returns to the hotel and meets Roy there. He places the battery in a bowl of ice while they are there, because it must not get too hot or it will explode. June reveals Roy by pressing the transmitter, and in a few seconds a police task force and Fitzgerald are there, but Roy escapes. In the course of the chase that followed, Roy was shot and fell into the passing Salzach. He no longer appears and is believed to be dead. Fitzgerald takes Simon Feck with him. While Roy is believed to be dead, June returns home and celebrates her sister's wedding.

When she happened to remember the address that Roy was monitoring, she decided to go to it, believing it was one of his hiding spots. Instead, she meets his parents there, who think that their son died heroically during an operation in Kuwait. From a photo June recognizes Roy, whose mother introduces him as Matthew. So Roy's real name is Matthew Knight. However, this will not be discussed further in the course of the film. The parents are doing well financially, as they have won money in various lotteries several times, although the father denies having ever bought tickets.

After the interview, she is convinced that Roy is still alive. To find him, she calls her own answering machine and says that she has the battery and that she will wait at a certain point to hand over the battery. She assumes that her connection is bugged. In fact, men show up at the meeting point and take them prisoner. She is drugged again and wakes up in Spain. She learns that the men who captured her were not from the CIA, but Antonio's people. He injects her with a truth serum and wants to find out from her where the battery is. Because of the truth serum, June is quite talkative. She raves about Roy and that he is definitely still alive, sure he is around, because where the bad guys are, he is not far. Antonio quickly realizes that June doesn't have the battery. He orders his men to kill June. In the meantime, Fitzgerald has arrived, who doesn't have the battery, but Simon Feck, its inventor, whom he wants to give Antonio for money.

In fact, Roy survived and monitored Fitzgerald; he followed him to Spain. He overhears June is there too and saves her.

Together they follow Fitzgerald and Antonio on a motorcycle. You can take out Antonio and his men, but Fitzgerald escapes first. June and Roy find Fitzgerald and Simon on a jetty and Roy has to give him the battery as Fitzgerald threatens to shoot Simon otherwise. Simon mentions that he could make a second type of battery, which would immediately become ballast for Fitzgerald, and even lower the value of the battery, since it would no longer be unique. He then wants to shoot him. In the following scene you can hear a shot, which is intercepted by Roy and seriously injured him. Fitzgerald then tries to escape with a small seaplane. However, since the battery is not cooled and was built incorrectly, it explodes with Fitzgerald and his plane. Roy passes out, bleeding heavily.

Roy wakes up in the hospital. Director George apologizes for trusting the wrong man. She expressly advises Roy not to develop a steady relationship with June and that he should continue working as an agent instead. No private connection is the rule of the game in the agent business, which is why you told your parents that he was dead. June is home again and will lead her own life. Finally, George explains to him that he will be taken away tomorrow for his own protection and that he is now safe.

However, June comes to him, disguised as a nurse, and gives him an anesthetic. You can see the escape of the two from the hospital in fragments and the film ends when Roy wakes up in June's car in the middle of South America and they make their way to Cape Horn.

In alternative versions, the last scene is that Roy's parents receive plane tickets to Cape Horn, although Roy's father denies having bought the tickets.

music

The score was composed by John Powell . The rest of the soundtrack consists of songs by the French music group Gotan Project ("Diferente", "Santa Maria", "Santa Maria - Pepe Bradock Mix") as well as titles from other groups such as The Black Eyed Peas (" Someday "), The Kingsmen ( "Louie Louie"), The Sonics ("Shot Down" ") or the Scorpions (" Rock You Like a Hurricane ") together.

Reviews

The film received mixed reviews. The film review portal Rotten Tomatoes gives the film 52% positive reviews out of 230 reviews and it has a Metascore of 46 out of 100 on Metacritic .

“ Light-handedly staged by director James Mangold (' Death Train to Yuma '), the film offers exciting entertainment throughout, which also does not neglect humor. [...] Clever and humorous action romance that consistently delivers amusement and two superstars, between whom the chemistry is noticeably right. "

“The action engine runs at full speed, which means that 'Knight and Day' ultimately sets the priorities differently than its role models, which emphasize charm and elegance. In the comical-romantic central pairing, however, tradition is preserved. The interaction between Cruise and Diaz, who are again in front of the camera after ' Vanilla Sky ', works. Both show exactly what made them popular. So 'Knight and Day' is not only a matter of trust for the characters, but also for the audience. "

- kino.de

“The relaxed, ironic score by John Powell suggests it right from the first minute: Please don't take everything so deadly serious. James Mangold consistently follows this credo in his romance-action-espionage-comedy mixture and offers such a high-octane, absurd spectacle with a well-humored star duo, fast car chases and the requirement of the audience not to question all of this too carefully ... "

- filmstarts.de

“Steel face meets giggling blonde. In James Mangold's agent comedy "Knight and Day", Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz smile at the edge of unconsciousness. Unfortunately unsuccessful: As smiley terminators they remain unattractive even in bathing trunks ... From the point of view of the action cinema, this work is a disaster ...

- Spiegel Online

"Turbulent-romantic comedy agent based on common patterns, which is entertaining but entertaining, playing with the motif of double identities with a strong ironic wink."

Background / origin

Filming took place in September 2009 in Boston and Bridgewater in the United States, Seville in Spain and Salzburg and Scharnitz in Austria. Before Tom Cruise had agreed, Chris Tucker , Gerard Butler and Adam Sandler were also in discussion for the lead role in "Knight and Day". The film had its German premiere in Munich on July 21, 2010 .

The film was particularly successful outside of the United States and grossed over $ 250 million worldwide at a production cost of $ 117 million.

The purchase of the DVD in Germany started on November 26, 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Knight and Day . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2010 (PDF; test number: 123 480 K).
  2. Age rating for Knight and Day . Youth Media Commission .
  3. Knight and Day at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  4. Knight and Day at Metacritic (English)
  5. cinema.de
  6. kino.de
  7. filmstarts.de
  8. spiegel.de
  9. ^ Knight and Day. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 23, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  10. boxofficemojo.com: Knight & Day , November 1, 2010
  11. ^ Knight and Day. In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on March 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 23, 2019 .