Not good, even for a fairytale

Rating: Null/10 (24 October 2004)

I never liked Spielberg very much, and I also wasn't very interested in this movie, but since I really like Tom Hanks, I tried to give it a shot. To my surprise, the movie starts well- the idea is good, original, but after 20 minutes, you realize that the story has been quite poorly developed : you constantly see Hanks doing the same things over and over again, and that is ...well, really boring! And then there is the "fairytale syndrome" as I like to call it- usually, I find it sweet, but here, they made it so unbelievable! I mean, it's really too much! I just couldn't buy, for a second, some of the tings that were happening during the movie! But it doesn't end there: this is probably a SPOILER

at the end, everything works out fine (as expected)...actually, almost everything- Why, if the entire movie is so sweet and non-realistic, at the end Hanks doesn't end up with Zeta-Jones? After all, he tried real hard and even had helpers (the dinner at the airport and the accidental meeting...) I really didn't understood what they were thinking while filming that part- it totally jumps off from the rest of the movie. It's like they had suddenly realized what they've done,and desperately tried to repair it, but it was too late: the movie was almost finished! Then,they agreed to just pop in this detail- that reminded me of "Chasing Amy" and some other good movies (the non-Hollywood production ones)- and try to save the whole ting. Sorry! It didn't work out, it didn't work out at all. You could watch this movie only if you really don't have anything better to do, but I suggest that you rent it- it's not worth being watched at the movies!