Good but not great.

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2002)

This is a good movie. But it could have been a great one. It's well acted, visually stunning and well paced. But yet a again Speilberg seems unable to made a movie without loading it up with schmaltz. In a couple of scenes (regarding Toms lost son) I found myself looking at the ceiling for a while. The ending is typical of Speilberg as well. This film could have benefitted from a not so happy ending. Also the audience is treated like idiots in the way everything is spelled out for them. As I said, it's a good film but not great. I think, maybe, a director with a darker edge could have done better with it.