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Summary: A wholesome, Midwestern woman accidentally gets involved with an international super spy and is forced to flee the country with him while he protects a dangerous new piece of technology.
Enjoyable star vehicle for Diaz and Cruise, who are charming and make a charming couple. Cruise in particular is far more affable than he has been for years. Overlength, and a needlessly complicated plot, spoil the fun when they give you time to think, but the performances and exciting action scenes make this a fairly painless way to kill a couple of hours. Also slightly marred by fading out during some key action scenes, which present hints of events which may have been exciting to watch.
For all the years this spent in production hell, it's emerged with a surprising amount of quirk intact. It's smart enough to play to the psychotic puppydog energy of Cruise & Diaz; they're both plenty old enough to know better, and their commitment despite that just adds to the charm. It pokes good fun at the shorthand of the genre, but ultimately can't sustain the energy of the initial pace and gets bogged down in weepy rom-com family nonsense. Fun while it lasts though.
The cast and crew are all above this material, but I have to admit to being entertained. It's mindless, but the action is deftly handled and Mangold brings just enough style to the proceedings to keep my interest peaked. The second act is a bit draining, but the opening sequences are highly enjoyable, with a surprisingly likeable performance from Cruise. Of course the third act is just action-movie auto-pilot formula, but it works well enough to pass the time. Terrible title, though.
Full disclosure: I don't like Cruise or Diaz much at all. But if you still want the truth serum I have to admit this overall works. Rather refreshing as this concentrates much more on Diaz's POV and leaves a lot of the Cruise action off screen to comedic effect. It's a bit slow to start but once the real action starts up it keeps up the pace with only a minor dip before the climax. Surprisingly clever script that doesn't rely on one liners to carry its humor. Rent to possibly even own.
Bad acting, seethrough story, just plainly worthless, to my opinion. Diaz just runs around pretending to be obnoxiously stupid (succesfully). And is Cruise even avting, or just loving himself too much? Sorry, hated this film.
God knows Cruise can get away with almost anything in my book, but why he chooses such familiar territory with zero challenging, original or memorable aspects - besides in the stunt department - is beyond me. Oh, and Diaz - for the love of God, CHILL woman!
The plot is ridiculous and without much merit, but it has a couple of perfectly-pitched action-comedy sequences that show Cruise in the best light both ways. It's a shame it couldn't have been backed up with a better story, but ultimately it's nothing more than a fun popcorn movie; if you're OK with that, it's an entertaining enough two hours.
Could have been better, but not nearly as God-Awful as some people think. It's an entertaining popcorn flick and is really classic charismatic Tom Cruise. Netflix it!
a very fine action/espionage flick. i almost completely dismissed this one because cruise is more than twenty years after his heyday, but do not ignore it. this movie is well written and well executed. there is almost nothing to give this movie a thumb down for.
basically i should have rated this movie a plain 100. because it shows everything you hate about pretentious mongoloids like tom cruise and cameron diaz. still, it wasn't the movies intention, so sorry...
horrifying action-'comedy' containing not a single believably human character. has a few inventive action moments, but everything surrounding them is too painful to watch