This is too cheesy to believe it

Rating: 4/10 (25 September 2004)

I saw this movie and I thought I would have to go and visit the dentist afterwards because of the excessive amount of sweetness on it. It is so sentimental that makes you throw up and you don't believe the story. The photography is well made, except for the scene of the fountain where the lights reflected on it go out of control and not to mention the fake water effect on the walls when the movie make us believe there was no water in the fountain. Except for that, the plot is okay but the way they handle it is too cheesy and they miss the whole point of it. The plot is quite simple: a foreign man has to stay in the terminal because for a moment there is no country for him to return and he has no visa so he has to live in the terminal until his situation is resolved. That's OK; and I know that films are fiction, but since this was based on a true story I don't think that the real man did get that royal treatment. Because, all of us that have gone to any of New York's airports and we are not American citizens, we are not treated with that delicate and kind treatment. As far as I know, no foreign person that has put a step on a NY airport has had any signs of good, even respectful treatment; so I was wondering, why were all the airport staff so nice with him? That is just no real! Anyway, about acting, I don't know about you but Tom Hanks, even if he did a decent job is horrible for comedy movies and not convincing as a Eastern Europe person; not to mention that when he was supposed to speak in the other language you couldn't even hear him, because he couldn't speak it. Then, Diego Luna, over here in Mexico the film company put him in the poster as a big role, when it has a secundary role and of poor quality of acting, considering his other roles. Catherine Zeta-Jones was OK, he didn't have a difficult part to play so she couldn't show her talent to the fullest. Over all, unless you are going with your couple to make out on the films or you are in the excessive cuteness mood, don't watch it!
In my overall opinion 4/10