Tom Cruise so desperately wants the action caper “Knight and Day” to be his ticket back to the A-list. Enlisting the bubbly Cameron Diaz for this flirty, globetrotting adventure helps his cause, but the film can’t overcome the nagging feeling that we’ve seen it all before.

Call it “Mission: Impossible” for the Rom-Com crowd.

Cruise plays a rogue spy named Roy Miller. He’s protecting a pocket-sized power source that a few of his corrupt government cohorts want to sell on the black market. At a Kansas airport, he bumps into June (Diaz), a plucky mechanic on her way back to Boston for her sister’s wedding. Both board a nearly empty plane, flirt, drink and pretend to ignore the greasy-looking thugs doubling as fellow passengers. (more…)