Undercurrent of misogyny

It's interesting that you could have worked as a spoof. How exactly would that work?

In any case June shows she is capable when she manages to 'kidnap' Roy at the end from what appears to be some sort of secured facility. Also most would act exactly as she did given the situation she was thrown into.

For relaxing times, make it Suntory time...

I think any normal person would be acting the way June was in the situations she gets into and Roy isn't way better at handling those situations because he's male it's because he's been trained and has experience with these kinds of situations. But by the way, ditzy girls exist. Stupid girls exist. Should they never be represented in movies? Is having a single character act that way really misogynist? Whenever there's only one female character in a movie people attack every flaw she has as if the character is meant to be a representative of the whole gender. It doesn't make sense. Does every movie really need to give a completely balanced view of every single category of human being they portray?

I also didn't feel that the movie really took itself very seriously. It seemed pretty light hearted and tongue in cheek to me.

You completely missed the point. The line "nobody, just somebody I picked up along the way" was his part of keeping her out of danger. At that point Cruises character doesn't know how well she can fully handle herself and thinks it safer to remove her. Her character evolves during the movie.

OP is either trolling or didn't watch the whole film.

Diaz' character is clueless at the beginning, but by the end of the film, she has saved Tom Cruise and become a very competent secret agent-type.

No. You can find an undercurrent of anything if you wanted to. I could say Tom Cruise made potentially fatal mistakes that a highly trained agent shouldn't have ever made. How could he have not made sure Cameron Diaz's cellphones were off and in his possession?

And she's never played a dumb ass before?

Something About Mary. She wasn't the brightest bulb in that one.

The Sweetest thing, again playing a horny bimbette.

Hmmmm

How is her character lacking in intelligence? She was thrown into a very dangerous position, dangerous and confusing. What was she supposed to be a rambo type in a dress. Who knows when they are being tricked, that's why it's called being tricked. She's in the clouds because he keeps drugging her so she really doesn't know where she is when she wakes up, by the way being drugged is not her fault. As for her dependence of Roy to save her why is that so far fetched, she's dealing with some heavily armed, dangerous ppl, how the heck is she supposed to save herself.

In this situation a woman not trained in espionage, or being a spy would be " naive, docile and powerless", in fact if she weren't naive, docile and powerless I would have thought what a dumb movie. No average woman off the street would know how to handle being thrown into a situation like that one.

And what is so wrong about having a man save you?

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