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Cruise and Diaz shoot up the ‘Knight and Day’ trailer

December 23, 2009 - 11:37 am

By Jay A. Fernandez

Whoo, boy. The Fox action-comedy “Knight and Dayhas a trailer. And it’s a surprisingly enjoyable experience watching Tom Cruise step back into likable human terrain.

This is how a trailer should be done. It’s electric. It introduces the characters effectively, as well as establishes their chemistry. It blows some shit up. And it hints at a plot without talking the thing to death and obliterating any chance at surprise when you finally sit down to see the thing.

Not to hammer “The Bounty Hunter” too much, but contrast this trailer with that one and note the vast difference in appeal.

Anyway, this trailer does exactly what it’s supposed to do and sets up a fun action ride to look forward to next summer.

Can there be something (else) about Cameron?

June 26, 2009 - 5:17 pm
By Steven Zeitchik
 
Diaz
Reinventions run riot in "My Sister's Keeper," the surprisingly effective New Line tearjerker about a family whose daughter is dying of leukemia, which we saw earlier this week at its New York premiere.
 
Director Nick Cassavetes goes from the crime dramas of his post-"Notebook" phase back to Weepyville. Abigail Breslin plays a conflicted, (slightly) more complex (or at least confused) pre-adolescent instead of merely a cute one, as the patient's sister.
 
And most significantly, Cameron Diaz, playing the tenacious mother who fights for her daughter's life even well beyond when it's reasonable to do so, moves on from the romantic comedies and one-of-the-guys testosterone pics to Kleenex-factory territory. (Alec Baldwin, playing a smirking ambulance-chasing lawyer, pretty much stays where he's been for some time.)
 

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