Sorry. Another real turkey from Spielberg. Hanks at his dullest.

Rating: 1/10 (23 January 2007)

I can't understand that many viewers find positives in this awful sludge. Stylistically degenerate (how many tinkling, sentimental piano background pieces can you stand?). And plot-less - at least Capra had a tight story-telling technique attached to his humanistic sentimentality. This is a dreadful illusion - Spielberg purporting to speak for an imagined America, as he likes to do, wishing that it has, after all, a heart of gold. Naturally the film flopped around the globe and in the homeland; Hollywood liberal schmaltz at its worst. And such a dreadful visual style: overblown yet superficial at the same time. Thankfully it's already all but forgotten. Give me a slice of real America, please.