That Moment You...

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2020)

Smile with gritted teeth at your kids art project and have to pretend it's great, because you love them very much and you encouraged them to paint in the first place ....
That's what this film is like, when you realise the legend Tom Hanks wrote and directed it. This was something he had been formulating in his mind during the promotion of Forest Gump. It would be fair to assume after all the great films he had starred in, Tom would know what it takes to make a great movie.... remember he wrote this after starring in the epic Forest Gump.
Unfortunately this film is bland as beige paint. Nothing is really wrong with the way it looks or the acting, but nothing is right about this picture. It lacks any kind of spark or magic star dust that Hanks experiences regularly on set.
How on earth could he think this film would be fascinating, exciting or even interesting? The plot is perfectly straight and narrow, with no twists or turns. It takes no risks or explores any off shoots ... it simply goes straight ahead without even glancing around for a single memorable moment.
Tom Hanks is a fantastic actor, who stars in legendary films and yet for some reason wrote a mundane, uninspiring flick, that is so easy going, you could go to sleep for 45minutes, wake up and immediately pick the story back up.
A college film would likely have more imagination than this waste of reel.
Pointless