Best Spielberg in years

Rating: 9/10 (16 March 2003)

Now this isn't "Schindler's List" or "Close Encounters of the third Kind", fare from those legend movie, but it's the best movie Spielberg made since "Savin Private Ryan". Sad because is seems less Spielberg than other films, just like "Minority Report".
Leonardo is very convincing and this is his best performance yet.
His portrait is great and you could see him as that kind of charming fraud he plays. Hanks is less convincing than Leo, but it's still the great performance you'd expect from the best actor we have right now. As in "The Road to Perdition", it's a new character for Hanks, which in both movies probably led to the Oscar nomination of his co actors.
But Christopher Walken is the best, by fare the best performance i've seen him in. He has some sort of devilish greatness about him it's just great. And the scenes with Hanks shows a great portrait of a father, Hanks must have some magic effect on he's co-actors, cuz if Hanks isn't the best all others are.
The movie is great stylish, very 60s and very straight. There are funny moments in the movie, especially Agabnale's first prank/fraud.
But somehow the movie is a little too long, but leads up the best Spielberg ending since "Schindler's List".
I love spielberg movies and this is one of his five or six best, which is saying a lot.
8/10