A dud, tout court.

Rating: 3/10 (25 August 2019)

I am not going to pretend that this film has any redeeming value just because it was directed by Steven Spielberg. It is one of the worst big-budget movies I have ever seen. Cheesy rom-com set in an airport in the age of TSA. The Tom Hanks character harks back to Forrest Gump, so if you looooooved that movie, then you might possibly find this one tolerable. I myself hated Forrest Gump, but this one comes close to being that bad. I harbor some doubts, in fact, as to the genuine directorship of this bottom-feeder production. Spielberg´s name is on so many projects, it could be that an assistant director did the heavy lifting here. An assistant director of substantially lower intelligence than Spielberg himself, who has churned out genuine masterpieces such as Schindler´s List, Munich, and Minority Report. The Terminal is not even in the same league as any of those works and is indeed so bad as to be embarrassing. Even if the plot and the characters and the clichés and stereotypes were not already bad enough, the musical score was pure torture to suffer through. I am reviewing this only as a reminder to myself not to make the mistake of ever watching this piece of junk again.
There, now I feel better.