He is probably the only director in Hollywood that can secure a huge audience just by his name appearing on the poster, with a possible exception to Quentin Tarantino. Spielberg is simply a master of his craft, surrounding himself with the best people in the biz. He creates a wonderful world here in this terminal, which was completely constructed from scratch, and using some marvelous cinematography from Janusz Kaminski, who has worked with Spielberg in his last six films. Spielberg is at the top of his form at the helm here. A little more development and a different take on the conflicts would've helped this script immensely.īut Mr. All we really know about him, for most of the movie, is that he wants to go to New York to the Raddison Hotel, and that he is a man of extreme patience. We don't get a lot of character development here either, especially with the Navorski character. But Nathanson and Gervasi did craft a fairly nice script, but the conflicts just didn't work for me. I would really like to find a copy of Niccol's draft, because I just love his work, and by him getting merely a story credit, it's apparent that there were many changes made to his draft. The script was written by Sacha Gervasi and Catch Me If You Can scribe Jeff Nathanson, with a story credit given to Gervasi and one of my favorite writer/directors, Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, The Truman Show, S1m0ne). With this performance, and his hilarious performance in The Ladykillers, and his upcoming voice work in The Polar Express, this looks like quite the year for Mr. He has a range unheralded in Hollywood, and it seems that there is not a one character this great actor can't play. He is simply perfect as Viktor Navorski, with the spot-on Eastern-bloc accent, broken English and skittish behavior. He is consistently at the top of his game, and he delivers another wonderful performance here. She does well in some scenes, especially her scene with Tucci, but overall, it's just not her best work.īut Tom Hanks is the Cal Ripkin of the movie business. She is a fabulous actress, with great range, but she seems hollow and artificial here. But Zeta-Jones just seemed like she didn't know how her character very well. Tucci always plays wonderful bad-guy types (See: Big Trouble, The Core) and he is on-point here as well, giving a nice performance. Tucci plays his character well, even though it was written poorly, and Zeta-Jones character was written nicely, and accurately (she's that "I don't know what I want" type of woman) but wasn't portrayed that well. Amelia sort-of falls for him, but pushes him away because she thinks she's "bad" for him. Dixon wants him gone, but doesn't want to "lie" which doesn't seem to fit his character. It just seems too Hollywood, and I wish they would've played it a little more straight rather than adding conflicts that are not only contrived, but don't totally make a whole lot of sense. Apparently, he stayed there for years, just lost in the shuffle, and when he was cleared to leave, he decided to stay in the terminal, and he still lives there.īut instead of using internal conflict with Hanks character, just being stuck in a terminal, we have this bully figure in Tucci's Dixon character, and Zeta-Jones' "love interest" character.
The movie is inspired by the true story of Merhan Nasseri, a refugee from Iran who was forced to stay at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris in 1988 after his passport and U.N. I don't know much about the true story inspired by The Terminal, but what I know of it is far different than the movie turned out to be. Catch Me If You Can did turn out to be a magnificent movie, but it was over-dramatized in comparison to the true story, told by Abagnale in his book of the same name. I don't know why Spielberg has to toy with these true stories so much.
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