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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertDiaz has one of the most winning grins in the movies. Basically, what I wanted was more of it. Some of that Cary Grant dialog. More flirtation. More of a feeling the characters, not the production, were the foreground. More of the stars.
- 65MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekNothing Cruise does seems to come from the inside -- every eye crinkle, every grimace, every brow furrow seems plucked from the air, collected from the universe around him and bent to do his bidding. Maybe that’s one kind of acting. But it’s not cool. Never will be.
- 63Orlando SentinelRoger MooreOrlando SentinelRoger MooreThe story is kind of all over the place, scatterbrained without being madcap (This one feels tinkered with, reshoots, re-edits.).
- 63Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrThe movie’s a piece of high-octane summer piffle: stylish, funny, brainless without being too obnoxious about it, and Cruise is its manic animating principle.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttLaziness permeates the film from the inexplicable escapes to the neglected romance.
- 50VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangA high-energy, low-impact caper-comedy that labors to bring a measure of wit, romance and glamour to an overworked spy-thriller template.
- 50New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDespite its impressive pedigree and unshakable assurance, Knight and Day is nothing more or less than an average popcorn flick.
- 38Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsKnight and Day may well suffice for audiences desperate for the bankable paradox known as the predictable surprise, and willing to overlook a galumphing mediocrity in order to concentrate on matters of dentistry.
- 38New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickIt would also help if they were given some dialogue that was actually funny, or at least more clever than the lines provided to Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl in the distressingly similar "Killers" from earlier this month.
- 30The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottA loud, seemingly interminable, and altogether incoherent entry in the preposterous and proliferating “action-comedy” genre.