Spielberg's Wrong to Boot

Rating: 5/10 (6 January 2008)

After watching this movie I sat and thought, on my personal taste, how Steven Spielberg was unfolding badly in his lasts movies: "Catch me if you Can", "Munich" were over the top, somehow unimportant and blurry in their conception. And I thought on his good movies, ones that made him King: "Jaws", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Close Encounters" "A.I" and so on. And I've realized how he directs better on atmosphere and terrain, not specifically on characters. How would you explain such a flat, unengaging relationship on screen between Hanks and Zeta Jones, dipped into an absurd, contrived relation? And the fact that we buy those thin characters as profoundly painted or widely written? That there is a suspension of belief on them letting Hanks in the Terminal, on the demeanor on Stanley Tucci's behavior? Im not gonna say it is a nice picture on bureaucracy edges.
Nowadays, the world is filled with forms and papers, with rules and legislations, and making a story like these (besides it is based on facts) is not original but interesting. "The Terminal" is an experiment on people that are "stuck" in a place, on their limited environment. The fact that Spielberg chose to deepen into the characters, and just delivers a thin hologram of them, converts the movie into a disappointing failure.