Early Reviews for Knight & Day

Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s romantic thriller Knight & Day opens this weekend—but will it be any good? The summer blockbuster has seen mixed early reviews, but will likely rake in a big box office its opening weekend. Writes the Los Angeles Times’ Kenneth 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.” The New York Times’ A.O. Scott, however, offered a less than glowing review, calling the movie a “loud, seemingly interminable, and altogether incoherent entry in the preposterous and proliferating ‘action-comedy’ genre.” Knight & Day has a 53 percent rating on RottenTomatoes.com after early reviews—and according to Anne Thompson of IndieWire, the movie isn’t tracking well because the actors aren’t in their “prime,” (though the movie’s trailer says “Tom Cruise is at his Jerry Maguire-best”). But despite reviews, Thompson writes, the film will likely build “good buzz” its opening weekend.