Show Knight and nd Day is s a reminder how Hollywood has lost itself Loren T Teryl Staff Reporter v Why do we put up with the same useless garbage year aft after r year Ever since the release of Jaws in 1975 the studios have been obsess obsessed d with producing summer blockbusters blockbusters' Casting big name actors using generic concepts and expensive computer generated effects instead of focusing on low cost yet effective techniques like better storytelling and believability Well Knight and Day is the newest girt gift from Hollywood Holl in the vile attempt to take our m money ney and destroy two hours of our life The cliches s go way beyond the title of this tortuous film A plot that is the amalgamation of plenty of other attempts at the summer box office smash Miller played by Tom Cruise Valkyrie is a rogue agent that is on the therun therun therun run from his agency He Heis Heis Heis is forced into protecting the life of a car restorer June Havens played by Cameron Diaz The Box Miller has gone rogue to protect the life of a scientist and his new discovered technology a battery Defying every known law of physics he has created a perpetual sustaining self battery A wrench is thrown in the wor works when the agency he heis heis heis is fleeing puts June in his way to see how hell he'll react After being in the industry since 81 you'd believe that Cruise would have one of z the strongest f I teams combing the vast amount a of scripts r created in inthe inthe the entire t industry Instead p handlers found the a f most lazy underwritten i i non fleshed 1 fi iJ out script they could I find it i had PG 13 written allover all allover allover over it If that doesn't make sense to you think harder Any flaws made during the production of this nightmare were desperately attempted to be washed over with the money hose in post- post production Action sequences that were attempts to look as though Cruise had done his own stunts were s sadly not at all believable Even the dialogue scenes in moving vehicles has stepped back fifteen years Thought Hollywood had gotten this technique down Apparently not In every phase of production xa this film falls S. S on its face ts t If you your r do end up 4 spending s t w the money to see this F movie you p s. s will be left a wondering Y- Y what happened f to the Hollywood A t machine Movie studios will finance films that bear more than the gross domestic product than that of some third world 0 cultures u tP r. r ii l o t e Io making fIlms rums long longer man y f almost every human being on this planet if filmmaking was truly f. f t th the craft it once was Jo you'd thin they'd have perfected it by now Knight and Day is proof that many in Hollywood donot do po not care one lick about artand art artand and entertainment just v E Ethe the possibility on a good return Do yourself and many future generations a a- a aE E favor and dont don't give them the satisfaction f Rated PG 13 for sequences of action violence throughout and r rb b brief strong language |