Easily Digestible

Rating: 7/10 (15 June 2007)

Entertaining indeed. Easily digestible: a feel good movie seasoned with a dash of suspense, small-scale drama and the obligatory happy ending. Nothing wrong with the previous assessment apart from the fact that "Catch me..." did not entirely succeed in keeping my undivided attention and that I was not really impressed due to an absence of tangible substance in the portrayal of the various characters.All the protagonists seemed to lack a form of real content and appeared to me as being very shallow human beings. Even the chemistry between Di Caprio and his father which was obviously intended by the director, was hardly convincing. In the first half of the movie Tom Hanks was portrayed too often as a bungling FBI agent which bordered on ludicrousness but luckily he was more convincing in the second half. Some scenes, such as the references to James Bond and Di Caprio's amorous encounter in a hotel room, were really superfluous not to mention the viewer's disbelief at the ingenious escapology of the Houdini-like forgerer. As stated in another review: a popcorn movie more or less, with regrettably, in my view, slightly less than more.