June has a garage in Boston. At an airport heading home, a bloke bumps in to her a few times & tries to keep her off the plane. He's under FBI surveillance ; they wonder if she & she are working together, so they let both on a flight filled with armed men desirous to arrest the stranger. He's Roy, she shoots his way out of trouble & tells her she's in danger. She's home the next day, miraculously, when agents pick her up ; Roy saves her again, & a transcontinental chase ensues with Roy convincing her that she 's the lovely bloke, defending an energy source that a rogue agent desires to sell on the black market. Can she trust Roy, & will trust matter when the bullets start flying?
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A quality action movie needs a real force coming from the bad guy. Here, the filmmakers instead provide us with a "is he a good guy or a bad guy" story line with Cruise. Anyone surprised at the real answer? Because of that, we don't have anyone to root against. Some generic Spainish arms dealer played by Jordi Molla (Blow) and the government agent played generically by Peter Saarsgard. Generic is not a word you want associated with your movie.
This is Cruise and Diaz together for the first time since the far-superior Vanilla Sky. They both deserve better than this slop, though I feel confident they had a good time with the globe-trotting to Spain, Austria, Jamaica and a few U.S. stops in between. The fun they had filming did not translate into fun for me as a viewer. In fact, as they were driving away, I kept hoping for an ending like Thelma and Louise.
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