Roy Miller (Cruise) spends a lot of time carefully avoiding the subject of whose side he’s on in this risky business: he could be a good guy or a bad guy—in fact, a crazy bad guy, which Cruise (who has always displayed a flair for light comedy before he became the let’s-be-serious-here superstar) plays to a T. Everybody in authority warns Diaz’s June Havens that he’s considered a bit woo-woo (not couch-jumping woo-woo, but unstable) something Miller is all-too-ready to acknowledge. June doesn’t know whether to help the guy, or run as far and as fast from him as she can.
With its Macguffin-like secret device and the innocent caught in the middle of chasing vehicles, this plot would be prime Hitchcock material. But Knight and Day goes further than that. Sure, it’s played bright and easy with a lot of laughs, as the seemingly unstoppable Miller manages to wedge himself into all sorts of sticky situations on all manner of wheeled vehicles, but the plight of the female lead is the focus, and that’s where Knight and Day separates itself from the majority of action-adventure/comedy films. It is her perspective that we follow, not the knows-all-the-answers secret agent (he’s rather casual about everything, in fact). It is through her eyes that we see the frenetic chases and the duplicity of spy work, with all the fear and outrage that such behavior might inspire in the real world.
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