Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Regency Enterprises, Pink Machine
Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard, Jordi Molla, Viola Davis, Paul Dano
June Havens is an ordinary good person. Instilled from her father with a passion for classic old cars, she’s on her way home to prepare for her sister’s wedding in Wichita. He life is about to change though, when in the airport she “bumps” into Roy Miller, a rogue secret agent who’s life is in serious danger. He’s trying to protect a young man and his invention that everyone is after. He uses June to get it past the security checkpoints, but a simple mistaken conclusion sets them on a path together that should get them both killed. June just wants to go home, and Roy just wants to make sure nothing bad happens to her, but as the are forced to work together getting deeper and deeper in it, they have to learn to trust each other, whether it makes sense or not. From the initial plane crash to the wild train ride to the final showdown, it’s action, action, action on a worldwide adventure!!!
I have to admit that I loved this film. This is a classic spy film, except that it’s hysterically funny. You can’t take this serious, and it’s all tongue in cheek here. And it’s very funny. The situations they get into are well crafted and extremely impossible which is what makes it so funny. Roy (Cruise) is so good, he takes absurd risks. Machine gun fire all around and he stops to explain the next steps to June (Diaz). It’s funny how every time June is in trouble, Roy is there, and he’s a heck of a secret agent. Roy reminds me of Charlie Wax (John Travolta) in “From Paris With Love“. They are the same kind of unbelievably clever, able to do anything and get out of any scrape, rogue secret agent. I really enjoyed every moment of this film, and this was one of the best DVD’s I’ve seen over the holidays. Put it in your NetFlix or Blockbuster queue or get it from the local RedBox, On-Demand, or however else you get your new releases, as this is a really fun way to spend an evening. I think the chemistry between Cruise and Diaz is about as good as it gets. It’s a very good movie!
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