A smart and educated Crime movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 September 2012)

I didn't really know what to expect when I started to watched this movie. Probably something interesting and fast, based on a true story, benefiting from spielber's experience, but, I just wasn't sure it it would be good.
and in my case it was a good surprise.
Di Caprio and Hanks are playing at a good level. Most of situations are credible, this could haven happen more or less this way.
The secondary carachters like di caprio's mother and fathers are not much developed but that give chance to faster pace and doesn't really harm the viewer involment with the main character. We can kind of understand what pushed the situation to start and develop this way.
There is also no glorification of crimes or criminal, Tom Hanks also doesn't represent a model saint cops leading a crusade against check forgers.
All in one, the story of two opposite personalities, with somehow similar wound and weaknesses, a "smart" crime movie, shown in a fast pace story telling and realistic environment made me arrive at the end to think "is that already finished", which doesn't happens often in my case.
Would recommend it without hesitations.