Unsatisfying, disappointing tale of airport nonsense

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2017)

Anything with Tom Hanks in I generally like, but this was disappointing.
The premise starts off well enough. Viktor Navorski is visiting New York in homage to his late fathers memory, collecting a missing musicians autograph, to complete his fathers collection of autographs. (The description of the film describes him as an 'Eastern Immigrant' for some reason - he was visiting the U.S. not emmigrating to the U.S.)
Due to political upheaval at home, he is made a person of no nationality.
He cannot step outside the airport or he will be arrested but he can stay in the airport. Alright we can swallow this in the name of artistic license.
The nasty airport boss wants him gone, but clever Viktor learns to earn his keep within the airport helped by sympathetic employees.
All along I kept thinking Viktor would turn out to be something great, a nobel prize winning physicist or something. That the nasty airport boss thought he was picking on a 'little guy'. Only to be revealed to be a big man.
But no, he's just a foreign ordinary guy trying to obtain the last autograph missing in fathers jazz musicians autograph collection. Fair enough, if rather boring.
Catherine Zeta Jones wanders in an out of the airport as a slut Stewardess embroiled in an affair with a married man. she becomes friends with Viktor. OK, but again rather boring.
The nasty airport boss keeps trying to 'get' Viktor but with the help of sympathetic airport employees he makes it outside to get his autograph and his countries political upheaval settles down again.
It's not terrible, just boring, certainly disappointing offering from Hanks/Spielberg