Not Quite but Almost

Rating: 4/10 (20 June 2004)

This is the story of one man stranded in an airline terminal when his country goes through political upheaval while he was in transit.

I'm told its based on a true story, but any connection between this movie and reality is a mistake.
Steven Spielberg is a good filmmaker. For years he's cranked out film classics. The problem is that many of them exist with in their own reality which isn't even remotely real. This is film suffers from this problem in spades.I never once felt that this film was even remotely real on any level what so ever.
SPOILERS AHEAD You'll forgive me but I couldn't ever really accept anything in this film. For example, and in order, Why is Hanks the only one with this problem? Why does person after person talk to Hanks but no one gets a interpreter? Why is Hanks simply turned loose into the terminal when he can barely speak English? How does Hanks pick up English so fast? I could go on for almost every plot twist but I won't. END SPOILERS
This is a well made but completely unreal film. Since the situations were unreal I couldn't care what happen to anyone in the film since they seemed so unreal, Hanks first and foremost. His whole character was simply a bad Russian like accent.
Its not bad, its just not anything you care about.
Four out of Ten.