A charming movie worth more than a second glance!

Rating: Null/10 (4 July 2004)

SPOILERS THROUGHOUT!!!!!!!

I found this movie utterly charming. Tom Hanks is wonderful as Viktor Navorsky, a man who finds himself in limbo after his country's government is overthrown. His papers are no longer any good, so he can't go to New York and he can't go home.
The story is about all the lives he touches during his time in the terminal- from a flight attendant with a skewed view on relationships (Catherine Zeta Jones)to a man wanted for assaulting a police officer in India (Kumar Pallana, who, by the way stole the show for me!!)to the Homeland Security Chief (Stanley Tucci) who he teaches that people mean more than rules and regulations. He even acts as cupid to a wayward couple (Diego Luna and Zoe Saldana).
I think it was Walt Disney who coined the term "Plausible Implausabilities". Basically what it means is taking something you patently know can't happen and make it believable. It's been used in cartoons for decades.
Speilberg perfect for live action here. If you look too long at the plotline, you will see that it just couldn't really happen, and yet...
There are plenty of feel good moments, some really tense moments, and a wonderful ending.
Four stars out of four!