Speilberg gets back to making family movies! (more or less)

Rating: Null/10 (9 February 2004)

I finally caught up with this movie after trying to see it twice and both times it was sold out.
And what a film! Speilberg is having fun with his most joyously entertaining movie since Jurassic Park, possibly even Raiders of the Lost Ark. Leonardo DiCaprio shines as Frank Abagnale Jr, the wayward runaway teenager who successfully outwits the FBI for four years, disguised as an airline pilot, a doctor and even a lawyer. Tom Hanks is back in comedy mode after his heavy performances in Road to Perdition, Saving Private Ryan and Cast Away as the FBI agent on Abagnale's trail, whilst having to cope with incompetent staff and getting colours mixed with his whites at the launderette.
This is Speilberg's most enjoyable film for years, and acts as a kind of redemption from the downbeat work he's presented us with over the last ten years.