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Genres: Action/Adventure, Romance and ThrillerRunning Time: 1 hr. 50 min.Release Date: June 23rd, 2010 (wide)MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sequences of action violence throughout, and brief strong language.Distributors: 20th Century Fox Distribution
Directed by: James Mangold
JJ Rating: B
See it again: Bits of it if it showed on TV.Own it: Nah.Recommend it to: no one in particular.
Roy a Covert agent (Tom Cruise) runs into June the civilian (Cameron Diaz) on accident- purpose. Accident means no movie. Purpose means movie. Then they travel about avoiding death over a small contraption that could power cities. Knight and Day.
Cruise acts crazy off screen spewing weird ideas that come from a group he associates with. He then chooses a part that highlights crazy in a character that appears to be, but is not. What does that say about Cruise? That he’s a good actor, but a weird person. Cruise and Diaz create an entertaining duo. Cruise is an amazing actor that has eluded the political Oscar for years. He may not be worth all that money based on box office returns, but if based on skill, he earns it every time.
I liked the way Cruise said June whenever he saw her. “Hi June.” Simple and funny for no good reason, it just sounded good. The bantering worked when it existed. Cruise not on screen the movie starts to drag. He pulls the film on his own, without him it’s bland. Roy’s parents cracked me up. “You don’t know what you’re typin’ into that computer.” Lines, like that one, are not funny by themselves; they need a boost from an actor and then they become more than a 2-D line. They get life.
The running time dragged toward the end. No feet dragging, just a minor slow driver drag. It’s like the driver that drives two miles per hour slower than the posted speed. You want them to go and they go, the just don’t GO! If it had tightened the time and cut off lose ends it could have been a quick action/banter movie, then I’d have given it a B+ easily.
Knight and Day is a play on words. The movie isn’t added to the craptastic summer list. It still had a bit of fun in it to make it summer worthy. Do not rush out and see it, not worth that. It’s decent fun. It could be the crappy movies have lowered my standard
Genres: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Adaptation, Sequel and TeenRunning Time: 2 hr. 4 min.Release Date: June 30th, 2010 (wide)MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some sensuality.Distributors: Summit Entertainment, LLC
Director: David Slade
JJ Rating: D-
See it again: NEVER.Own it: Hahaha. That’s a good one.Recommend it to: Any female that believes these books are sweet and enchanting. Diluted…sorry did I type that out?
I love you Edward.
I love you Bella.
Shut up, she loves me. I smell it with my doggy sense.
Please she can’t love a dog, that’s bestially.
And what is loving a vampire? Necrophilia?
Take that back, I’m polite and overly nice.
Hell no, I’m more male than you and all your dead sparkly parts.
Boys, boys, boys please keep fighting over me. It makes me feel wanted, even if I don’t smile more.
See, she loves me!
No, she loves me!
It continues for 2+ hours just like that, but with a bit of fighting that bores and a flood saccharine lines that gives everyone ear cavities.
-Twilight: Eclipse
The only reason New Moon is better is because Jacob tells Bella to stay in the truck. His brutish (in comparison to Edward’s personality) behavior made for an awesome scene. Eclipse is the same old same old with the “Omg I love Edward, but come here Jacob and let me tease you” and then a bit of boring fighting and you got yourself Twilight: Eclipse. What are these books about? It can’t possibly have an actual story. It’s too much about who’s she going to open herself up to next and who she’s going to kiss and touch. It’s like a sex addict. It reminds me a lot of Bill Cosby’s“The Apple” “Come here, come here, no go away, go away.” Her mentality is like I have to try out the merchandise before I pick who is best fit for me. She tried Edward and liked him, but she had to make sure she disliked Jacob first.
Bella’s back and forth between Edward and Jacob is obnoxious. The entire series seems to stem from her indecision and it, yes, bothers me. She needs to have a female villain that tries to take one of the boys to show her how it feels, to make her appreciate what she has. Edward is so weak and spineless. Why does someone have to show such traits just to be respectful and treat women equally? Jacob is aggressive and not bland, more male and normal and less fictional and not a lie.
The best part of Twilight: Eclipse has to be the back-stories. They added a bit of personality to the characters. Told why Jasper (Jackson Rathbone ) stands as if he’s in the military. I liked that aspect. That gave the film more credit for existing.
Jackson Rathbone had a bigger role in Twilight: Eclipse than in Airbenderand that’s weird considering he’s a main character in Airbender and not inEclipse.
The close emotional mucky scenes between Bella and Edward are nothing more than bleh. I expected as much, but I hoped for more.
I don’t understand why Jacob had a small mustache throughout the movie. It scared me. He was a bit creepy for having an almost but not quite mustache. He would not look good with one. To add to the creepy Jacob had to mention imprinting. "You'd know if I imprinted you." What? That's the grosses thing Jacob's ever said. I was very disappointed.
If they ever want to make Twilight, the film or book, more macho all they have to do is add a pinch of zombies. Those would rule the film. MaybeSeth Grahame-Smith could be the writer to do it. I think that would out sale the original. I know, wishful thinking.
Eclipse is a film I’ll never see again and never want to see again. The fight scenes were dull and the vampires didn’t sparkle. It’s like only Edward gets to sparkle. How stupid is that? I think the books and movies should be re-titled to Bella’s Indecision because she can’t decide who to pick for 2,000+ pages and in movies it’s 6+ hours. Are you ready for a whirlwind of yes, no and maybe so? Well then, you’re ready to step into Bella’s horrendous world that totally pictures males in the most unrealistic way possible. That males are only on this planet to fight over non-smiling (though she technically did smile more in this film than the previous two and hardly bit her lip), moody females that need to have two males want them or their life sucks…literally. Speaking of sucking, Eclipse does nothing but suck. Suck the fun, the smart, and the entertaining out of watching movies. Yay.
