Entertaining, but hard to believe

Rating: 5/10 (15 August 2003)

If this wasn't based on a true story I would have thought it was just the figment of some screenwriter's imagination but it is based on a true story so it obviously must have happened. The real Frank Abagnale, Jr. must have been 10 times slicker than Leonardo because the character as he portrays him wouldn't have been able to con me out of so much as a dollar bill and the FBI agent that Tom Hanks plays isn't too bright. How he ever let Abagnale get away from him as many times as he did is beyond me, but then again, based on recent news the FBI appears to be about as bright as Barney Fife so I guess they really did let this kid slip through their fingers on more than one occasion and make fools out of them all.