Appropriately titled.

Rating: Null/10 (21 June 2004)

This movies is appropriately titled the terminal, because it is a terminal movie, as in terminally bad, and I mean that as in many ways. But it was decent at some parts, I'll give it that, it was better than some of Steven Spielberg's other movies, but not quite as good as his best movies. It would have been better if he had put more flying in it, which would have been appropriate since it took place in an airport. But by flying, I mean flying like in the movie Hook, not like in Saving Private Ryan, I mean like magical flying, because at least that way something more interesting could have been happening on the screen.
Tom Hanks stars as Viktor Navorski, a Russian man with a bad Russian accent.
He is stuck in the airport, because of some political malfunctioning, but not to worry, because he is stuck in the airport with some interesting people. The supporting cast includes Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Chi McBride, and Kumar Pallana all in supporting roles. This was a pretty good role for Tom Hanks, but he definitely shouldn't get any awards for it, because it wasn't his best work, or even as good as his best work. Also, I don't like how Tom Hanks keeps playing older characters, because he did his best work when he played younger people, like in Big, Bosom Buddies, and Burbs. I know your probably saying, but he's getting older, but there's make-up for that, just look at how young Tobey Maguire looks in most of his films.
But the rest of the supporting cast do good jobs too, for the most part at least. I wasn't too fond of Chi McBride, because he always looks the same in every TV show and movie he does, he's always playing a big black man who is in some sort of position. But his name bothers me too, because mostly I think it sounds like a girl's name. McBride for one thing sounds like a girl, cause as we know, only girls can be brides, except for in San Francisco, but he doesn't seem to be that type of bride, if you know what I mean. And then his first name I just can't pronounce. Speaking of last names, why didn't Catherine Zeta-Jones change her last name when she got married. She could've been Catherine Douglas, but then I don't think it's good for people to have last names as first names anyways. But if she really loves her husband and isn't just with him for his money and looks, then maybe she could have at least hyphenated it, like Zeta-Jones-Douglas, but I'm not too fond of hyphenated names in the first place, except for Sarah Michelle-Gellar. But Kumar Pallana was good and funny in the movie too.
Anyway, I won't give away the ending, even though it's not surprising at all, but it's still better than the ending of some of Spielberg's other movies, like Jurassic Park, where the Pterodactyls were flying away in the end. But I did like that flying, too. Maybe this movie would've been better if it had real dinosaurs in it, instead of just Tom Hanks, who is starting to look like one, but only a small one that looks like a human. Maybe then this movie wouldn't have been such terminal garbage.