FRESH from his winning appearance on TV's Top Gear alongside his glamorous co-star Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise returns to the silver screen in Knight And Day, a hybrid of a movie which could be loosely described as a comedy action rom-com!

At breakneck speed, secret agent Roy Miller (Cruise) sends ordinary girl June Havens' (Diaz) life on a screeching detour ... and vice versa.

June boarded a plane in Wichita, Kansas and began chatting up her charming, mysterious passenger Roy.

Soon after, everything changed.

Suddenly, the plane was hurtling into a cornfield without any living crew or passengers.

Without even time to catch her breath, June finds herself being pursued around the globe — dodging bullets in Boston, leaping rooftops in Austria, and running from bulls in Seville.

All in the company of a potentially duplicitous, possibly unstable yet decidedly alluring secret agent at the centre of a life-or-death adventure that will push these two people from opposite worlds to do the one thing they've long avoided: trust.

Now, nothing will be the same again for them, as this exceptional secret operative finds himself undone by ordinary love and this everyday woman finds herself capable of the most extraordinary things she could imagine.

That — readers — for what it's worth is the plot for this movie which tries too hard to please and just about does.

Since his famous meltdown on American TV, Cruise's career has spluttered in the US and unfortunately Knight And Day has not kick started it either — blighted by bad reviews and a less than impressive performance at the box office ($72 million), Cruise must be wondering whether he has lost his mojo.

Even more worryingly for Cruise, his next movie is reported to be another Mission Impossible sequel and I cannot help wondering whether audiences have outgrown the 48-year-old actor who has starred in much more enjoyable fare than this.

"Knight And Day has everything I love in movies," Cruise said.

"It's a perfect mix of action, comedy and fresh, identifiable characters with a love story that feels very organic.

"What interested me so much about the story of Roy and June is that everything that happens to them happens through the prism of action."

Knight And Day is a reasonably enjoyable movie that features enough action and breathtaking stunts that will satisfy most cinemagoers but I was hoping for something a little more cerebral.

Do not get me wrong, it is very entertaining and Diaz is always watchable but the action gets in the way of the romance.

But at least it is not a sequel, based on a TV show or converted into 3-D, so on that basis Knight And Day is well worth seeing when it opens in cinemas this Friday.

The fate of Mission Impossible 4 rests on your shoulders now cinema goers.