Stuck like Chuck

Rating: 7/10 (30 June 2004)

Can you imagine spending nine months or more stuck in an airport? I can't stand even walking through them much less living there. For Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) in The Terminal that is exactly what he has to do - live in an airport.
Due to some international fiasco between his home country and the United States, he cannot be granted a VISA and allowed into the country. They cannot return him home either due to a rebellion that is going on. Therefore, he is stuck in the limbo land of a catch 22.
For something so simple as a story about a guy being stuck in an airport, Steven Spielberg delivers quite a great story. How bad can a guy's luck get when he is forced to bathe in a public restroom? Or when his bed is made of a bunch of seats?
To make matters worse he falls in love with a flight attendant, Amelia Warren (Catherine Zeta Jones) who seems destined to pick the wrong men in her life. What occurs thereafter is serious of comedic misadventures of a man who tries to occupy himself in an airport as best he can while under the watch of a ruthless airport security overseer (Stanley Tucci).
This movie is an upside-down love story, a tragedy, and above all else a comedy. Aside from an unexpected ending, it delivers a nicely told tale of a simple man's delayed journey to America.