Might as well peel an onion

Rating: 1/10 (5 February 2005)

Tom Hanks plays guileless eastern European character who defeats New York airport security through sheer charm.
Projects a self-serving image of foreigners as hysterical naifs, whose emotional incontinence adorns them with a human warmth that calculating Americans ostensibly have lost.
Spielberg pays a patronizing homage to the Slavic temperament by scoring some vaguely Slavic-themed music and by having Hanks utter a few lines in a charming but unintelligible gibberish dialect that's about as authentic as Taco Bell.
Very sentimental in a highly manipulative way. Provides some vaudevillean comic relief.