Great but a little too long for it's own good.

Rating: 7/10 (5 June 2003)

Fine comic caper that has a lot of heart, but over stays it's welcome with it's own sentimentality. Leonardo Dicaprio is fine as Frank W Abanale Jr, the young man who manages to become every thing from a lawyer to a pilot in his quest of fun, and Tom Hanks is fine as well as The F.B.I agent dedicated in catching him. The movie easily captures the frizzy fun of movies of a forgotten by gone era, and gives a hype vibe to all the scenes it has. The only problem with it however is the fact that it takes way too long to come to any real conclusion. The story could have been much better if it thirty minutes were taken out of the film, but it's fine for what it is.