Premise Is Not Believable / Very Aggravating

Rating: 1/10 (28 November 2004)

I can't remember the last time I that a movie was so bad that I couldn't stand to watch the whole thing, now I'll remember.
No matter how moronic and sadistic a bureaucracy may be, I just couldn't believe that in the JFK International Terminal that there would be so many people who could blatantly ignore the fact that this poor passenger could understand barely a word they were saying. And I happen to be a Kafka fan, so I've read a little bit about unchecked mindless bureaucracies, and when properly portrayed they're as funny as they are scary; The Terminal was neither.
It seemed that the whole airport staff was totally ignorant. Several people kept talking to him in English, even acknowledging that they knew that he couldn't understand what they were saying. They also acknowledged that they needed an interpreter, and even though he was showing them his translation dictionary, and they acknowledged that he had a translation dictionary, no one tried to use it to help the situation.
It might have been used as a joke if somebody had suggested that the Stanley Tucci character was an ignoramus, and had him demoted or if someone had filed a lawsuit, or otherwise pointed out the incompetence.
But alas I couldn't wait that long. I don't know whether I'm proud or embarrassed that I was able to survive watching 30 min of this totally ridiculous / aggravating / silly waste of time of a movie.
I can't believe that Tom Hanks did this movie; I can't believe that it ever got made at all. It's Crap! I give it 1 out of 10, and only for getting me to rent it.