History Film / KnightAndDay

2010 SummerBlockbuster ActionAdventure movie starring TomCruise as secret agent Roy Miller, who might be trying to clear his name or who might be trying to cover up a horrific multiple-murder and theft of a potent free energy [[MacGuffin MacGuffin]], and CameronDiaz as June Havens, a WrenchWench ActionGirl sidekick embroiled in spy games that go way over her head.

* DuelingMovies: Came out around the same time as ''Film/{{Killers}}'' and while their plots are not identical, they are similar enough that the general public noticed the oddity of their close release dates. Ultimately, ''Killers'' ended up being panned(11% on RottenTomatoes) and barely turned a profit at the box office, while Knight and Day received more moderate reviews and grossed $260+ million.

* NoOneShouldSurviveThat

* DuelingMovies: Came out around the same time as ''{{Killers}}'' and while their plots are not identical, they are similar enough that the general public noticed the oddity of their close release dates. Ultimately, ''Killers'' ended up being panned(11% on RottenTomatoes) and barely turned a profit at the box office, while Knight and Day received more moderate reviews and grossed $260+ million.

2010 SummerBlockbuster ActionAdventure movie starring TomCruise as secret agent Roy Miller, who might be trying to clear his name or who might be trying to cover up a horrific multiple-murder and theft of a potent [[YouFailPhysicsForever free energy]] [[MacGuffin MacGuffin]], and CameronDiaz as June Havens, a WrenchWench ActionGirl sidekick embroiled in spy games that go way over her head.

* BadassDriver: ''both'' Roy and June. June manages to pull off some amazing moves going the wrong way on the highway while controlling a runaway car from the back seat reaching over the corpse of the former driver: Roy calls her a "natural."

* GenreSavvy. June: When being interrogated by Antonio. Says something like "The Good Guy is probably round the corner"

** In one of the heart-warmeyer moments of the film, Roy has left June a note saying he was happy to have met her, and a second, reminding her to 'Eat a good breakfast, June'. He'd left her an omelette.

* TorosYFlamenco: They had the decency to shoot in the real Spain, but then put [[ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans the running of the bulls]] [[YouFailGeographyForever in Seville]]...

* NiceGuy: Roy, even when thrown into walls by super-strong Assassins, is a soft-spoken gentleman who does not curse or use swear words ''once'' throughout the entire movie. In one of the heart-warmeyer moments of the film, Roy has left June a note saying he was happy to have met her, and a second, reminding her to 'Eat a good breakfast, June'. He'd left her an omelette.

--> '''Simon:''' Just ''die'' already!

* UnderestimatingBadassery: although, given that Roy's being chased by his own organization, they ''should'' know better.

-->'''Roy:''' You stay here, I'm going to go talk to those guys in the tunnel... Actually, I'm going to go kill them. Wait right here.

* BodybagTrick: done backwards; a supposed corpse is wheeled ''out'' of the hospital.

* ChekhovsGag: almost everything Roy says to June, funny or not.

* DeadFootLeadfoot: causing one of the BadassDriver incidents.

* FightMagnet: given that [[MacGuffin the Zephyr]] is being hunted by everyone from a covert ops organization to Spanish gun runners, it's not too surprising.

* GenreSavvy. June: when being interrogated by Antonio. Says something like "The Good Guy is probably round the corner"

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: done so much it stops being funny. The baddies are entirely worthless with guns, and [[HeroTrackingFailure can't track Tom's character]] while he ''calmly walks over to kiss the girl'': let alone while he's running. They also have trouble hitting ''still'' targets.

* TimeBomb: only there's no visible counter, and the object in question isn't actually supposed to be one.

* TrainEscape: streetcars, actually, but no less awesome.

* YouAreTooLate: literally. [[spoiler: The bad guy takes off in a plane with the highly sought after [[MacGuffin Zephyr battery]], pausing only to take a shot at Simon]].

* ActionHero: played by TomCruise, of course.

* AdrenalineMakeover: played straight and subverted; June Havens certainly TookALevelInBadass after significant bits of the plot, but up until the halfway point of the movie she got progressively more worn down as the action progressed.

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: subverted: [[spoiler: June deliberately gets herself kidnapped so that she can get back together with Roy, assuming that he'll save her. He does, but he has no idea that she's there at the time, as he's around for a completely different reason]]. He does take a moment in the middle of a firefight to step out from cover and kiss her when she guilt talks him into it, though.

* ActionGirl - [[spoiler: June, by the end of the movie.]]
* ActionHero - played by TomCruise, of course.
* ActionSurvivor - June, for most of the movie.
* AdrenalineMakeover - played straight and subverted; June Havens certainly TookALevelInBadass after significant bits of the plot, but up until the halfway point of the movie she got progressively more worn down as the action progressed.
* {{Adorkable}} - Roy and Simon.

* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs - [[spoiler: Roy Miller's private island in the Azores is attacked ''and blown up''.]]
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl - subverted: [[spoiler: June deliberately gets herself kidnapped so that she can get back together with Roy, assuming that he'll save her. He does, but he has no idea that she's there at the time, as he's around for a completely different reason.]] He does take a moment in the middle of a firefight to step out from cover and kiss her when she guilt talks him into it, though.
* {{Angrish}} - June's reactions in much of the first half of the movie.
* AntiHero - Roy Miller ''may'' have killed dozens of innocents in cold blood and stolen the [[MacGuffin perpetual energy battery]]; he ''definitely'' kills dozens of agents in cold(ish) blood and drags an [[ActionGirl unknown innocent]] into the fight with him, though it's fairly obvious that he has little to no choice about the matter.
* ArmorPiercingSlap - Subverted.

* YouFailPhysicsForever: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], but not at first. The Zephyr is presented as a true perpetual motion machine - it will ''never'' run out of energy, ever. However, over the course of the film, the battery slowly builds up heat and [[eventually explodes, spoiler:taking out the villain in his moment of triumph]].
* BadassDriver - ''both'' Roy and June. June manages to pull off some amazing moves going the wrong way on the highway while controlling a runaway car from the back seat reaching over the corpse of the former driver - Roy calls her a "natural."

* BigDamnHeroes - Roy, in Seville.
* BrokenRecord - "We'll keep you safe, June."
* BodybagTrick - done backwards; a supposed corpse is wheeled ''out'' of the hospital.
* BondVillainStupidity - Yep. Mind you, at that point, the bad guy thought he had already won, so the survival of the good guys was reasonably irrelevant.
* CaptainObvious - It pops up from time to time.

* CasualDangerDialogue - Roy personifies this.
* ChekhovsGag - almost everything Roy says to June, funny or not.
* ChekhovsSkill - At one point Roy demonstrates to June how to escape from a reverse choke hold. [[spoiler:A few scenes later a would-be assassin puts her in - what else - a reverse choke hold.]]
* CloudCuckooLander - ''Every'' screw in Roy's lovable head is loose, as exemplified by ''this'' line:

* CompletelyMissingThePoint - Rodney, for a man going for lieutenant, you're more dense than a concrete training building.

* DeadFootLeadfoot - causing one of the BadassDriver incidents.
* DorkKnight - Roy.
* DuelingMovies - Came out around the same time as ''{{Killers}}'' and while their plots are not identical, they are similar enough that the general public noticed the oddity of their close release dates. Ultimately, ''Killers'' ended up being panned(11% on RottenTomatoes) and barely turned a profit at the box office, while Knight and Day received more moderate reviews and grossed $260+ million.

* FightMagnet - given that [[MacGuffin the Zephyr]] is being hunted by everyone from a covert ops organization to Spanish gun runners, it's not too surprising.
* {{Foreshadowing}} - Some of Simon's writing early in the movie reads [[spoiler:"[=CuO3=] = boom!!"]]. Guess what happens to [[spoiler:the battery]].

* GotVolunteered - June. Several times.

* HeroicSacrifice - [[spoiler: Roy, taking a bullet for Simon. He survives, though.]]
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: done so much it stops being funny. The baddies are entirely worthless with guns, and [[HeroTrackingFailure can't track Tom's character]] while he ''calmly walks over to kiss the girl'' - let alone while he's running. They also have trouble hitting ''still'' targets.

* MadeOfIron - The assassin on the train. ''Wow.'' Most of the stuff is just standard movie things, until he gets stabbed in the chest with a ''knife''! The assassin also {{No Sell}}s June whacking him in the head with a frying pan.

* MistakenForBadass - June, by the spy agency. Later on, though, [[TookALevelInBadass she gets better]].
* NeutralFemale - June, but not during the action sequences; she's actually this during much of the ''plot'', being very decidedly on one side or the other when action breaks out.
* NiceGuy - Roy, even when thrown into walls by super-strong Assassins, is a soft-spoken gentleman who does not curse or use swear words ''once'' throughout the entire movie. In one of the heart-warmeyer moments of the film, Roy has left June a note saying he was happy to have met her, and a second, reminding her to 'Eat a good breakfast, June'. He'd left her an omelette.
* NoEscapeButDown - [[spoiler: and into the river.]]
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat - [[spoiler: Roy, after falling into the river. Every one assumes him to be dead despite never finding a body]].

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome - Roy's antics when June is drugged, because we're following her point of view.

* PrecisionFStrike - June gets one in an argument with Roy about his "warning" not to get on a plane not being very effective, she then says that a better warning would've been saying something like "June, if you get on this plane, you will fucking die!"
* {{Protectorate}} - Simon and the Zephyr.

* RatedMForManly - Constant action, check; spy games, check; explosions, check; firefights, check; Cameron Diaz in a bikini...

* SlapSlapKiss - Roy and June, naturally.

* SoleSurvivor - Simon, Roy, or Fitz, depending on your point of view. The massacre happens in the backstory, and most of the movie is trying to figure out exactly who did what to whom.

* TeenGenius - Simon, who's managed to solve the energy crisis despite the fact that he's "barely out of high school".
* ThemeNaming - June and her sister April.
* TimeBomb - only there's no visible counter, and the object in question isn't actually supposed to be one.
* TookALevelInBadAss: [[spoiler: June, by the end of the film.]]

* TrainEscape - streetcars, actually, but no less awesome.
* UnderestimatingBadassery - although, given that Roy's being chased by his own organization, they ''should'' know better.
* YouAreTooLate - literally. [[spoiler: The bad guy takes off in a plane with the highly sought after [[MacGuffin Zephyr battery]], pausing only to take a shot at Simon.]]

* YouFailPhysicsForever: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], but not at first. The Zephyr is presented as a true perpetual motion machine - it will ''never'' run out of energy, ever. However, over the course of the film, the battery slowly builds up heat and eventually explodes, [[spoiler:taking out the villain in his moment of triumph]].

* DuelingMovies - Came out around the same time as ''{{Killers}}'' and while their plots are not identical, they are similar enough that the general public noticed the oddity of their close release dates.

* YouFailPhysicsForever: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], but not at first. The Zephyr is presented as a true perpetual motion machine - it will ''never'' run out of energy, ever. However, over the course of the film, the battery slowly builds up heat and eventually explodes, [[spoiler:taking out the villain in his moment of triumph]]. Despite Roy's reassurance to Simon that "[he's] a smart kid - [he'll] figure it out," he clearly won't: The audience knows this, but Roy doesn't, meaning ''he'' still fails physics.

* {{Protectorate}} - Simon and the Zephyr (which is a GoodNameForARockBand)

-->'''Roy''': "You stay here, I'm going to go talk to those guys in the tunnel... Actually, I'm going to go kill them. Wait right here."

--> '''Roy''' No one follows us, or I kill myself and ''then'' her!

-->'''Roy''': "That hurt more than I thought it would."

* YouFailPhysicsForever: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]], but not at first. The Zephyr is presented as a true perpetual motion machine - it will ''never'' run out of energy, ever. However, over the course of the film, the battery slowly builds up heat and eventually explodes, [[spoiler:taking out the villain in his moment of triumph]]. Despite Roy's reassurance to Simon that "[he's] a smart kid - [he'll] figure it out," he clearly won't: The audience knows this, but Roy doesn't, meaning ''he'' still fails physics.

* AdultChild - Roy again.

!!This film provides examples of the following.

* WhatKeptYou

* DuelingMovies - Came out around the same time as ''{{Killers}}'' and while their plots are not identical, they are similar enough that the general public noticed the oddity of their close release dates. As to which of the two is the better film...YourMileageMayVary.

* XanatosGambit - Roy's many, many plans.