very good; could have been truly great

Rating: 9/10 (23 December 2000)

Very good movie, possibly the best I've seen this year.
The first 3/4 of the movie are first rate; the ending was a little too obvious. They sort of hit the audience over the head a few times where subtlety would have served them better.
Tom Hanks is incredible in this. Zemeckis is good, but he has to watch himself; sometimes he gets a little too cute, like he did in the running scenes in Forrest Gump.