Would Somebody Please Slap Spielberg?

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2004)

The Terminal has 90 minutes of good film in it. Each and every scene is beautifully directed by Spielberg, the camera direction is pretty impressive!! The storyline is also good.. as are a lot of the scenes. However, as much as The Terminal has good things about it.. there are also bad things..
Spielberg should have got a decent producer, like Michael C. Gross to slap him or hit him in the face with an iron wrench for every minute that he goes over 90. Basically this movie contains a lot of un-necessary scenes, which draws it out far too much. I got extremely restless after an hour and a half and just when I thought the movie was about to end, it carried again and again. Maybe this is a Spielberg flaw.. the fact that he feels every character that Hanks meets should have his/her own storyline. Nobody cares about them!! And what was with Catherine Zeta Jones.. nobody could possibly believe in a romance between her and Hanks.. thats just bad casting. Now, MAYBE if it was an actress who nobody knows about who isn't that great looking, that would be a lot more viable. And a lot cheaper to pay too!
And what was with a female custom officer marrying a food trucker who she never even met before!! That was so ridiculous and un-necessary to the narrative of the movie. If The Terminal cut out all of these stupid scenes it would be a pleasurable 90 minutes which would please everyone.. So Mr Spielberg please bear that in mind for your next movie!
Conclusively.. The Terminal is good.. but so long that the quality of this movie is diluted severely. 6/10