I've never been a Tom Cruise fan, but there's no denying the fact that he's a Hollywood icon. For over 20 years, his movies were consistently hits and most of them opened at #1. Despite the fact that these movies were from various genres and were of varying quality, Cruise's loyal fans (most of whom were women) flocked to the movies. Over the past few years, Cruise's star has slipped somewhat, but he continues to appear in at least one movie a year, and they always get attention. With Knight and Day, Cruise returns to the action genre for the first time since the last Mission: Impossible film. Will this also mark his return to the top?

As Knight and Day opens, Roy Miller (Cruise) and June Havens (Cameron Diaz) run into one-another, literally, at an airport. Miller apologizes for clumsiness and moves on. A few minutes later, June finds herself on a nearly empty plane with Roy. Not long after take off, a fight breaks out and the plane crashes. On the ground, Roy explains to June that he is being pursued by a group of bad men and that they will most likely be coming for her as well. June then awakens safe and sound in her apartment in Boston, and questions if she remembers her flight correctly. These doubts are dispelled when a group of men, led by Fitzgerald (Peter Sarsgaard), approach her. Roy suddenly appears and rescues her. From this point, the pair are involved in a chase around the globe, as Roy attempts to convince June that he's one of the good guys.

Is it just me, or was Knight and Day a weird movie? I don't know if he's done this intentionally, but Cruise has seemed to avoid playing unlikable characters in his career. So, when Roy is introduced, we assume that he's going to be the hero. But, Cruise plays him as an unbalanced man who kills non-chalantly and whose cool and casual demeanor doesn't mirror what's going on around him. If I had to guess, I would say that Cruise is trying to play Roy as someone who never panics, no matter what the situation. But, he misses that mark and plays him as someone whose mental problems keep him from knowing exactly what is going on around him. The movie also makes the unusual decision to have much of the action occur off-screen. As the story progresses, June is often drugged and therefore misses out on the action, of which we only get brief glimpses. Was this in the script? Is it an aesthetic choice? Was it a money-saving thing? In fact, even during the big action scenes, the movie tends to pull its focus away from the car-crashes and explosions.

These interesting touches don't keep Knight and Day from being a very pedestrian movie. This is one of those movies where something is often happening, but none of it is engaging. The film hits the ground running and clearly wants to be an adrenaline-fueled action movie, but this big sequence feels like something which should come in the middle of a movie. Even when everything is eventually explained, the story feels wafer thin. Just as the movie doesn't want to focus on the action, it doesn't seem to want to focus on the plot either. The emphasis is placed on Roy and June and how "quirky" they are. These characters are supposed to carry the film, but there is no chemistry between Cruise and Diaz and at times, it feels as if they are in different movies. Knight and Day also thinks that it's clever and funny, but there is no true levity here.

The biggest insult or perhaps the low-point is that the title doesn't make any sense. I had assumed that Knight and Day referred to the names of the main characters, but it doesn't. They could have done more with the fact that June's last name is Havens. According to a note on IMDB.com, the script for Knight and Day has been kicking around for years, but I still can't shake the idea that Tom Cruise was trying to make his own The Bourne Identity, but this movie has none of the intelligence or excitement of that film. In the end, Knight and Day is not a disaster, despite the buzz which immediately began when the movie didn't perform as well as predicted when it opened in theaters. Instead, it's simply a "meh" movie which one will watch and immediately forget.

Knight and Day gives Tom Cruise too many chances to take off his shirt on Blu-ray Disc courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The film has been letterboxed at 2.35:1 and the Disc contains a 1080p HD transfer which runs at 22 Mbps. The image is sharp and clear, showing no grain and no major defects from the source material. The colors look good, most notably reds and blues. The picture is never overly dark or bright. The level of detail is somewhat lacking, which is surprising for a new movie no Blu-ray, but the depth is acceptable. The Disc carries a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track which runs at 48 kHz and an average of 4.0 Mbps. The track provides clear dialogue and sound effects. While the video is somewhat lacking, the audio is great. The stereo effects are nicely done, as unique sounds come from the right and left. The surround sound effects do a fantastic job of placing individual sounds in the rear speakers. The subwoofer effects thump, but never overpower the other sounds.

The Knight and Day Blu-ray Disc contains an assortment of extras. "Wilder Knights and Crazier Days" (13 minutes) takes a look at the big action scenes in the film and shows how Cruise and Diaz often did their own stunts. We get a closer look at the locations used for shooting the film in "Boston Days and Spanish Knights" (8 minutes). "Knight and 'Someday' Featuring the Black Eyed Peas and Tom Cruise" (9 minutes) shows Cruise (and Kate (not Katie) Holmes) meeting with the Black Eyed Peas (sans Fergie) backstage at a show, where Cruise then joins them on-stage. There are two "Viral Videos", "Soccer" (1 minute) and "Kick" (1 minute), both of which show fake behind-the-scenes footage. "Story" (4 minutes) and "Scope" (3 minutes) are both brief promotional pieces which offer comments from the cast and multiple clips. The final extra is the film's THEATRICAL TRAILER.