Starts wonderfully, with Cameron Diaz hooking up with mystery man Tom Cruise on a plan – lots of playful banter, intrigue and star power. It started to lose its way around the time when they land and he puts Diaz in her house – when the tension should be increasing (eg she’s accused of the crime and goes on the run herself or something) or at least she should be having more genuine stakes, it slows down and has to start up again – then there’s another action sequence which is far too cartoony and CGI-like to be genuinely exciting.
The movie never recovers – the device of the scientist feels under-used, it’s too obvious that Peter Skaarsgaard is really a baddy (cf in Charade Walter Matthau was a lot more convincing). I get they were going for Charade but that whole film is about Audrey Hepburn’s husband being killed and her unknowingly be in possession of the money – you could have taken Cameron Diaz out of this movie and it still could have played out.
Some fun moments (eg the reveal of Cruise's island), surprisingly chaste (why not have them have sex?), characters you think are going to be important aren't (eg the scientist, Cameron's ex), the head of the CIA is really dull.
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