Knight And Day -- Not Great, But Fun

Knight and Day was promted in India with full force. There are many reason for it like Hollywood movies are doing good business in India lately. You have Avatar, it's collections from India proved its global success.

It’s the same reason why most of the Hollywood big budget movies are promoted in India, especially in the metropolitans. Let us keep that apart, today, I’m talking about the movie “Knight and Day”.

And, please read how I won the tickets to this movie via twitter.

I heard about this movie before it was released. It was promoted extensively on the blogosphere. But, on its day of release in US, I heard pretty bad reviews about the movie. One fact which caught my eye was that this is the worst Tom Cruise movie, in terms of opening day collections. Although, I don’t get much affected by the reviews but still, reviews make that leave an impression for sure.

Cast

The movie has a big stars ensemble to its name. Tom Cruise, coming back again as an Action Hero and Cameron Diaz, accompanying her, well you can this is one of best star cast you could ask for.  

Yes, I’m a fan of both. This, I don’t know, may the 10^th or 12^th Tom Cruise movie I have seen. I have loved him in all different kind of characters may it be a fighter pilot from Top Gun, to an attorney in Few Good Men, Vanilla sky, Jerry Maguire, The Last Samurai, MI series and many more. He has lived up to the character many a times and same was I expecting in this movie too.

Cameron Diaz, have always been doing these light hearted comic/romantic movies like There’s something about Mary, The sweetest thing, Charlie’s Angels series but my favorite Cameron Diaz movie is  “My sister’s Keeper”. This is one movie I’ll never forget and Cameron was amazing in the movie as well as the other cast.

This was the fourth James Mangold movie I saw after girl interrupted, Kate and Leopold and Walk the Line. I had good expectations from the movie, especially because Walk the line being one of my all time favorite movies.

Plot

The movie revolves around a federal spy gone traitor, Miller (Tom Cruise). According to Millar, he is trying to a save perpetual energy resources, which was discovered by one of his friends, Simon, because some people were trying to sell it to a Spanish Mafia king Anotnio. He meets June Havens (Cameron Diaz) while catching a flight to his next destination. In the flight, the federal agents try to kill Miller while June was in bathroom. Miller succeeds in killing all the agents on the flight including the pilots. But, he somehow manages to land the plane safely. But, now June is stuck with him. Federal agents think that June is involved with Miller and try to take her under custody. But, Miller rescues her and convinces her that she’d be safe with her.

Thus, begins the journey of Roy and June together. What happens to the perpetual energy resource? What happens between June and Roy?

Good Things

Well, some of the good things about the movie are the action sequences, comic parts and the chemistry between Cruise and Diaz. About, action sequences, I’d say after Die Hard 4, this was the one action movie I liked, especially when it all made sense and they weren’t blowing cars for fun. I loved all the chasing sequences in the movie especially the one at the end with the motorcycle. Comedy is one of Cameron Diaz’s fortes. She nailed this one too. The romantic scenes between them are too good.

Bad Things

Yea, the movie was fun and entertaining but it wasn’t one of the greatest. It’s a good movie to watch but it definitely not one of those whom you’d cherish for long.

6/10 is what I rate this movie.

I won I won

Hey All,

Well, i took a day off on this thursday cause of a headache and what i was thinking of being a bad day, turned good at the end. Yea, after my lunch, i just came on online to check what is, my fav actress, Amisha Patel's (@ameesha_patel)updates, cause she said earlier she caught malaria. So, when i was online.......i found this contest held by one of Bangalore's/India's most famous local search Engine. It's called ASKLAILA. I have more about them which i'll tell in the next movie. Ok.....so AskLaila was hosting this contest and the winner will be given away free passes to the movie "Knight and Day" which i won. Yea, i won free passes to the new Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz movie. Yaaayyyyyyyyy. Cameron Diaz is one of favorite Hollywood actress especially after "My sister's keeper". I have written about this movie too( Click on the link to follow that).

I'm all excited to watch this movie. I also got a call from the AskLaila representative Linda. She was kind enough to courier me the passes when she heard i live far from their office(thank you).

So, now i have couple tickets to the movie on Saturday(10-july-2010) evening.........any one interested to give me company. Girls preferred.   :D

I saved the link to the tweet.

http://twitter.com/namma_bangalore/status/18028096489

My Sister's Keepers - Oscar Content

I saw this movie yesterday and think is still have the hangover of the movie. Please excuse me, if you think i was baised while reviewing this movie but, i'm adding to my list of "All Time Favorite's". This current year, i think, have been really bad for the Hollywood. It really lacked the content this year. Big movies with big budgets were made but they all lacked the main thing, the damn story....... where are the good writers who have written some amazing scripts of all time. Last year brought some really big movies like GI Joe, 2012, X-Men Origin etc and et. al. There are a lot i can name but sinceraly don't remember them .... cause there was nothing good to remember them. There have been really few movies to watch this year and this is one of them. Strongly recommended.

• Cameron Diaz – Sara Fitzgerald
• Alec Baldwin – Campbell Alexander
• Abigail Breslin – Anna Fitzgerald
• Sofia Vassilieva – Kate Fitzgerald
• Jason Patric – Brian Fitzgerald
• Evan Ellingson – Jesse Fitzgerald
• Joan Cusack – Judge De Salvo
• Thomas Dekker – Taylor Ambrose
• Emily Deschanel - Dr. Farquad

Spoiler's Ahead

The movie starts with an extraordinary scene when the youngest child of Fitzgerald family Anna, played by Abigail Breslin, decides to sue her parents for Medical Emancipation because they were forcing or presurising her to donate body parts to her Leukemic older sister Kate Fitzgerald. Anna, as she got to know later, was concieved with a plan so that she can be used as a doner for her older sister. The two sisters are really close. They love eachother but this time Anna was thinking about herself.

Because of a leukemic patient in home, all other children were kind of sidelined. Though everybody was fine about it but all of them suffered cause of it. The oldest son Jesse also suffers the neglegence of his parents. Jesse was Dyslexic which his parents came to know very late.

The mother of the family, played by Cameron Diaz, Sarah who is a dedicated mother and want to save her girl at any cost. She is ready to do anything for her. She is not ready to believe that her girl can die of the Leukemia. She is so determinded to save her child that she has given her self to her girl. She has almost side lined her other two child. She has shaved her head for the movie and she is the second actress after Demi Moore whom i have seen doing this for a character.

The father of the family, Jason Patric, Brian Fitzgerald knows and understand his children and when Anna files sues them for medical emancipation, he realizes that everybody is important in the family. When the doctor tells him that her leukemic girl is dying. He takes her to the beach and try to make her last days happy and give her all the happiness in the world.

Kate Fitzgerald, played by Sofia Vassilieva, plays the leukemic girl child. No wonder if she gets hell lot of nomination for the character.She is awesome in the character. Hope to see a lot more of her again and again. She is like Ellen paige to me cause after watching Juno, i felt like she is it the best..........felt bad she didn't win oscar for Juno. Really don't have much words to describe her performance. She is really amazing ...... recommended.....watch her when she falls in love.

Alexander, Alec Baldwin, the lawyer who takes up the case for Anna  and Joan Cusack, Judge De Salvo, who is the judge of the case. Also two important characters of the movie. I have not seen much of Alec Baldwin and really appreciate his performance in this movie. I'm getting some of this movies to watch ahead. Got the good shepard will be watching it in soon. I have been a fan of Joan Cusack and always wish to watch her more and more. I have seen some 6-8 movies of her and

always loved her.

Nick Cassavetes, the director of the movie, really would stand up and applaud and want to thank you for such an absolute beauty. One of the most difficult part when making such a movie with so many important charactes is to distribute the screen space between the characters so that no one looses its importance. And this is one point i think where Nick excelled and with the screenplay. The story is displayed on the screen very beautifully.

Matthew Barry and Nancy Green-Keyes congrats to them to pull out such a impressive and justifying cast.


Would like to highlight some important scenes of the movie.

1- Anna Talk to Alexander about hiring him for suing her parents.
2- When Kate finds love.
3- When the Fitzgerald's go to the beach.
4- When Sarah walks into Alexendar's office.
5- When Mom and Dad find out Jesse is Dyslexic and wants to send him to special school.
6- When Kate tells Anna to file the case against her parents.
7- When Jesse tells why Anna has filed the case against them.
8- Especial moments between kate and Taylor, her love.
9- Watch the dedicated and determine mother who wants to save her child.
10- When Judge De Salvo talk to Anna privatly about the case.

This is one of my awesome. I would give it 9/10 points and would really recommend you to watch this movie. To support these kind of film makers who are working there and bring pleasure to the industry with their work.