Spielberg unworthy

Rating: 4/10 (24 February 2005)

Is this movie really made by the same director that gave us Shindler's List, Jaws and Close Encounters?? What happened to you Steve? Catch Me If You Can wasn't all that good, but this is even worse.
The story in a nutshell: A man from a fictitious country lands on JFK airport (presumably with his private jet, since he's the only one coming from this country) but can't enter the USA because his country's government was erased while he was in the air. So all he can do now is wait and hang around the airport.
This could have resulted in an interesting movie but it's totally ruined by a number of things:
-The cliché image of everybody coming from Eastern Europe being dumb and clumsy
-Tom Hanks delivering one the worst fake accents in Hollywood history (do you know the video game "Red Alert"? Well, worse then that)
-This is Hollywood so it needs a Romance and a Villain, but neither of them works. I mean, would someone looking like Catherine Zeta Jones really fall for a guy who speaks like that dresses like your math teacher? There is absolutely no chemistry between those two. And this guy Dixon, does he have nothing better to do then bully this poor man?
This movie has just too many stereotype characters and movie clichés along with a very VERY unlikely plot which is also full of holes. I just hope that Spielberg regains his old level of movie making again soon.