Knight and Day (2010)

Director: James Mangold
Writer: Patrick O'Neill
Cast: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz, Peter Sarsgaard
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller, Adventure

Knight and Day is over the top, and never apologize for it. Sadly such movies have to balance really well on the edge of the knife to work well as entertaining, and this one falls on the edge well to often. Diaz works as eye candy, but the rest of her role is quite lame. Cruise doesn't work as the cool guy, and it's close to becoming a parody of his Ethan Hunt role from the Mission Impossible trilogy.

The stunts and action sequences aren't only unbelievable, but they ain't entertaining either. The story acting like a plot, is pretty much the high school edition of any film class and then it can never be great. Taken as it is, its still not worse than almost watchable, but I rather watch the Charlie Angels' sequel than watching this all over again, even if my ratings doesn't back up that statement.

In Her Shoes (2005)

Director: Curtis Hanson
Writer: Screenplay by Susannah Grant, Novel by Jennifer Weiner
Cast. Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine
Genre: Drama, Rom-Com

In Her Shoes' focus is at the two very different sisters Maggie (Diaz) and Rose (Collette). Maggie is the party girl, while Rose is more the by the book life-planner. An indiscretion over Rose's boyfriend separate them even more, and when a formerly unknown grandmother living in Florida enters the picture, soon they are separated in distance as well.

While the romantic and dramatic parts doesn't separate itself from most of the others within the genre, this one is actually quite funny in its own quirky little ways.