From credits to credits, a very interesting flick

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2002)

I'm not big on Leo, but he has been a bit busy the past year or so. I heard of Catch Me if You Can a while back and did a quick look up of the main character and was pretty interested. I like guys like Ricky Jay (and was very interested in seeing his Broadway Show on being a con-artist) and what not so this was something I was really looking forward to. And I was not disappointed at all.
Leo was great as Frank Jr, and I always welcome any Christopher Walken character. Tom Hanks did fine as Carl Hanratty, but the real character was Frank. It had a biiiit of a slow start, but from the first moment we saw him taking control in school and con-ing his fellow students, it was pretty cool and not so unbelievable. His character really took advantage of those situations where you say to yourself, how does anyone know that I am really supposed to be here. I really have to comment about the opening credits because they were just sooo neat. The wacky situations that Frank seemed to sneak out of and into were just too ballsy (even makes you a bit jealous). If there were any real problems that I had with this film it was the almost silly and sped along France scene, but other then that I was pretty impressed.