The Terminal

Rating: Null/10 (20 February 2005)

The Terminal is based on a true story..but a true story isn't told.
The movie are VERY loosely based on the story of Merhan Karimi Nasseri. An Iranian "stuck" on a French airport, stuck in the situation of being a "no-man-land-man". In the Spielberg movie the "stranded" isn't an Iranian, but an east European citizen, who's country was the subject for a coop while Hank's character was in the air.
It might be provoking in it self that Spielberg & co. has taken what one might call LOADS of artistically freedom in this movie, and for me it is slightly provoking. This could have been a movie about a real person, a real suffering person that, even if the true Nasseri, has been given access to France currently, still lives at the airport, and his life are not a comedy, as Spielberg portrays.
On the other hand, Spielberg delivers a movie with the room for some softness and some laughs. It's "view" on the world is of the "feel-good" type. It gives us movie fans a "breathing ground" in the times of Harry's Lord of the Troy. It's simple..it's fun....and it's Spielberg