Spielberg hasn't made a decent movie since schindler's list

Rating: 2/10 (19 June 2005)

Tom Hanks puts on his Forrest Gump persona again, but his time with a phoney Bulgarian accent. The true story this movie is loosely based on is not a really romantic one. Merhan Nasseri does live in an airport terminal, but thats about where the resemblance ends. The real Nasseri has been in Charles DE galle airport in France since 1988 and suffers from a fragile mental state and has since been granted leave, but has chosen not to. The actual story could make a decent film, There is a french version staring jean Roquefort. But this one decides to go the clichéd and predictable route instead. In watching this movie I got the impression that the ALL the characters were trapped and living in the airport, since Hanks interacts with them conveniently both day and night. And the unending string of factual errors was so much I decided that the story was taking place in some fictional world existing only in the film makers mind. the scene were the Indian janitor delivers his little catchphrase when apprehended by a swat team for delaying an airplane was just too stupid. this movie could have been something with the material at hand, but falls flatter than a meal voucher.