this movie suffers from terminal phoniness!

Rating: 1/10 (19 June 2004)

another spielberg fantasy movie without anything going for it.
the problems? tom hanks looks bloated, overweight, old and miserable - he made a perfect immigrant from eastern europe. just the sort of guy that catherine zeta-jones would be attracted to, right? right. only in spielberg's imagination.
nothing in this movie is plausible or even very interesting and it's definitely NOT funny. unreality rules at this faux-terminal. it's all fake. . one of the worst scripts I've ever suffered through . . and talk about product placements (borders, dean & deluca, starbucks, sbarro, hugo boss . .. the list goes on and on ad nauseum!) they alone probably paid for the huge overlit fake airport terminal set they built for this turkey.
oh, yes and did I mention the bogus soundtrack? as we left the theatre someone pronounced it "bathroom music" . . . I think he meant musak. if this is the best john williams can do, he should retire.