Also, it upset me all the good agents who thought they were on the right side and got killed by Roy. I know this shouldn’t be an issue, but in this movie it is, a big one.
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Roy Miller (Tom Cruise) bumps into June Havens (Cameron Diaz) twice at the airport. At first they tell her the plane’s completely booked, but then they call her to go in and it’s half-empty. The Cia was monitoring and thought she might be an accomplice so they decided to let her go in.
They’re on the same flight of course and they talk a bit. She’s restoring her late dad’s old car, and says she wishes “someday” to get in the car and just keep driving until she reaches Cape Horn. Roy says “yeah someday. That’s a dangerous word” and “It’s really just code for ‘never’” which is the only thing I liked.
There’s a bit of turbulence, she goes to the restroom and he starts fighting the other passengers, really agents I guess, and kills them all, even the pilots. When she’s out it’s all over, she goes straight to him and kisses him, and then he tells her “no need to panic, I’ve contained the situation” and “we’ve lost the pilots”; he tells her that he shot them dead, and then lands the plane on a field. He drugs her to make her sleep and instructs her that ‘bad people’, meaning the Cia, will ask her about him. She’s to say she doesn’t know him and she’s to stay away from them. She wakes up at home, goes meeting her sister, and she gets surrounded by agents and can’t avoid getting in a car with them. Suddenly they start getting shot one by one and Roy lands on the car she’s in, which is out of control since the driver is dead, and she keeps screaming :-/ (which is understandable but it was annnoying nonetheless). Roy keeps shooting people then gets in the car and manages to stop it. She says “please stop shooting people”. She runs away, goes to a diner with her friend Rodney the firefighter, looking like she’s got stuff to explain but can’t find the words. She finally tells him everything but of course he doesn’t believe her. Roy shows up saying they must stick together, then he cuffs her to him and takes her away, shooting Rodney in the leg when he tries to stop him, but without lasting damage. Roy tells June that he’ll look like a hero, it’ll be good for him: “yeah we should all get shot now and then” she says, and then he says that he warned her not to get on the plane when he said that things happen for a reason: “next time try: June, if you get on this plane you will fucking die” and then he stops the car letting her go, and he makes a scene about her being safer with him and about wasting time with her when someone else needs him, you know, he makes her feel bad because she’s not grateful that after killing people and crashing the plane she was in, he drugged her, killed more people, shot her friend, abducted her... how very ungrateful of her.
Anyway, this is a movie so she sticks with him which makes no sense at all.
He explains that they are after a battery called Zephyr that never runs out, and that Fitz was his partner but intended to sell the battery after killing the kid who invented it, Simon Feck, so Roy escaped taking Simon to safety (Paul Dano). I think Roy said Simon was very young, still in high school, but he didn’t look so young at all, maybe I misheard?
Fitz declared him a traitor. When bad guys attack them, she almost kills him “you keep saying my name, it’s freaking me out”. He drugs her again, she passes out, they get captured and she sees bits here and there: Roy saying he’s got it under control, then them on a plane parachuting her down, then on a boat... she wakes up on a tropical island wearing a bikini. He teaches her how to free herself when someone’s holding her (... :-/ seriously?).
She takes her sister’s call and the bad guys trace it and attack. She’s too scared to go into an unsafe-looking-helicopter, so he uses the Vulcan nerve pinch on her and she’s out again. She wakes up on a train, Roy with Simon. She finally starts getting that she’d better not answer the phone, then an assassin attack them, he’s come to take Simon and kill Roy. He’s a professional assassin that Roy knows well, and she’s able to free herself by doing what Roy told her... seriously? And she hurts him with a knife to his chest... and Roy finishes him off.
At a hotel in Austria, Roy goes out and she secretly follows him: he meets a woman and says about her, about June “she’s nobody, just someone I picked up along the way” and then they talk about prices, looking like he wants to sell the battery. She’s picked up by Cia, and talks to director Isabel George (director of counter espionage) and Isabel tells her that Roy used her from the start. June agrees to help them, and from her hotel room she sends a signal when Roy and the battery are both there. He says “that hurt more than I thought it would”. The Cia bursts in, takes Simon and her away. Roy tries to escape, and it looks like he was shot and fell in the water, with the battery. June goes home, attends her sister’s wedding, then she takes her dad’s old GTO that looks pretty much restored to me, although she was supposed to do it but didn’t have time because of Roy, and she goes to the Amapola address she had seen on Roy’s phone, thinking it might be a safe house since he was monitoring the place. It turns out it’s actually Roy’s parents’ house. They think they won the “publishers clearing house” twice, whatever that is, and the wife says that Frank doesn’t even remember buying the tickets, and he knows he didn’t. June finds pictures of Roy, and the woman, Molly Knight, says that’s her son Matthew who died in Kuwait. Knight, very appropriate. Too bad she’s called June Havens which has nothing to do with ‘day’.
June leaves a message on her phone for whoever might be listening to it, and they get her. She finds herself in Spain, drugged by the bad guy Antonio Quintana with some kind of truth serum.
She starts talking about Miller, saying how he knew that she was following him and he did it to sent her home to her sister’s wedding, to protect her. The body was never found so she’s sure that he’s still alive even when Antonio says he’s dead.
Roy is there to save Simon who is in Fitz’s hands, then he sees that she’s there too and goes to save her first. He moves around fighting and shooting, but she’s still under the drug’s effect so she starts talking, saying life with him is exciting and that she wants to have sex, and then “you don’t seem very happy to see me Roy” only because he’s busy preventing them from getting shot, so to prove her she’s wrong he simply walks straight to her to kiss her - saved only by the usual hero-luck.
They escape on a motorbike, and since they are in Spain there’s the inevitable running of the bulls and the corrida, and then she turns around in the bike and takes his weapons and shoots at the bad guys, taking down a car, while the whole lot of them hasn’t been able to make a single scratch on their bike *rollingeyes*
Roy goes to save Simon and to do so he gives Fitz the battery, which is unstable and explodes killing him. Roy has been shot to protect Simon, so they call for help. He’s taken care of in a hospital, the Cia thank him and Isabel says she trusted the wrong man and that Simon is happy now because he’s got a new lab, and also that they sent June home saying that as an asset he gave up all that: a personal life with friends and family.
When he’s alone, June shows up dressed as a nurse, she drugs him with Brotine Zero - the same thing he had given her - and takes him away: “don’t worry Roy, I got his, it’s time for a vacation”.
He wakes up in the car, on a beach, wearing shorts. “what day is it?” - “someday” and then they go to Cape Horn.
In the last scene we hear Molly’s voice saying they just received tickets to Cape Horn: “did you order tickets to South America?” and “you don’t know what you’re typing on that computer Frank” and “we must have won them!” and “well, we’re going aren’t we?”
ITA Knight and day innocenti bugie
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