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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