Charming, funny, entertaining and smooth

Rating: 5/10 (9 April 2005)

With Steven Spielberg it's 80 percent that the movie works pretty well, why? Because Spielberg simply has reached a point in his career and has a ability to make without back thoughts, good movies, he simply knows the recipe. Starring Tom Hanks as a Russian this movie kicks off smoothly offering what the movie has to offer; charming and well acted conversations and a airport set scene.
THE TERMINAL isn't the ordinary Spielberg movie in many ways, and if you don't have the guts to see Hanks making up his accent, this is a very straight forward tail about a guy who's stuck in nowhere land. Though it's a original idea, there's not really much original ideas inside it or magnificent things happening here - but still; Spielberg and company keeps it a very charming and entertaining movie.
Tom Hanks is a Russian who's stuck on the international terminal; without possibilities to go back to his country in war or to New York City laying just outside the airport walls. So he has to live there until he gets clearance to enter NY or back to where he came from. But off course; this bad English speaking guy do get into different kind of situations that makes the airport security pretty fed up but in the same time, fascinated by the guy.
Tom Hanks acts well, very well actually. He is so relaxed and amusing that it all works so much more well than I had expected, brilliant photography and fine music as always in Spielberg films, this movie has very much working before it really has started just because of it being a Spielbergian motion picture, though it's very far from his best movies. Zeta-Jonesa may not be doing her best performance either, but hey! This is charm and choosy.