Tom Cruise had said that he always wanted to film an action scene where Cameron Diaz straddled him on a motorbike. Oh to be a Hollywood A-lister! Cruise and Diaz team up for the first time since Vanilla Sky and the stars will be hoping the film is their Knight in shining armour. Both are in need of a hit.

June Havens’ (Diaz) normal life is rocked when she becomes unintentionally involved with rogue secret agent Roy Miller (Cruise). Miller is in possession of a new energy source which criminals and the CIA will chase him all over the world for.

After some darker roles Cruise returns to his early Risky Business comedy days  and it is quite refreshing to see. In recent years, summer blockbusters have been bloated in length and plot and have taken themselves far too seriously. At 110 minutes, Knight and Day fits into the bright and breezy category. Not groundbreaking or particularly memorable, but an enjoyable watch nevertheless.

From the minute June first meets Roy, the pace never relents as we get a whistle-stop tour of exotic locations and a host of outrageous but cleverly choreographed actions scenes. Cruise is best at playing himself and his smile which was his sole acting attribute in Cocktail and Top Gun is still 24 carat gold over two decades later. From balancing on a speeding car, crash landing a jumbo jet or being hung upset down by criminals, his obliviousness to the peril as he assures June everything is fine provides the film’s best moments of humour.

This also covers up some of the darker elements of the film, in that Miller could very well be crazy and has no qualms about constantly drugging June, only for her to wake up on a desert island in a  bikini. It just seems like a set up for another action sequence rather than any misogynistic fantasy.

Outside of the Tom and Cam show, the rest of the cast hardly get a look in, wasting the talents of Peter Sarsgaard and Paul Dano and Patrick O’Neil’s script seems to forget to bring in the funny at certain points. However Director James Mangold keeps the CGI to a minimum, resulting in some original action scenes that don’t fall into the trap of trying to up the ante as the film proceeds.

Knight and Day won’t change your life, but neither will you come out clawing your eyes out and wishing the entire cast and crew would perish in a freak yachting accident.