This week, Cruise and Cameron are reunited in a chaotic, excessive, and surprisingly fun action-comedy, James Mangold’s Knight And Day. How many writers is too many? Is this an example of perfect casting? Can real-life beauty compensate for 2010-quality CGI?
Content warning: gun violence, peril, drugs, sexual assault
Unanswered Questions:
- Is there an edit which can make more sense of this film?
- Could Knight And Day have launched a franchise?
- What would be a better title?
Further reading:
- Salt
- The Tourist
- James Mangold (Wikipedia)
- Gambit (1966)
- Gambit (2012)
- Inside Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard’s Brooklyn Home (Architectural Digest)
- Inside Vanessa Hudgens’s Enchanting L.A. Home (Architectural Digest)
- Imagine (Gal Gadot and friends)
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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