Ridiculous plot prevented actually enjoying the moving

Rating: 5/10 (19 June 2004)

What could go wrong in a Spielberg/Hanks film? You would expect the movie to be a sure thing, unfortunately not this time. I sat down to really enjoy this movie and found myself increasingly frustrated throughout the film. This movie doesn't attempt to be fiction which is the source of my issues. It attempts to show us an extremely unlikely (yet possible) situation where a man is stuck between two countries at an airport terminal, but where it fails miserably is in the handling of the situation. I grew increasingly frustrated by the ways in which this ridiculous situation were played out. I never could suspend my disbelief of how ridiculous the whole scenario was and throughout the film I could not enjoy the laughs that came. I found myself mumbling out of frustration and heard many others in the theatre speaking out loud at their own disbelief of how the movie played out. I realize this review is weak in content, so let me say only that if you are expecting a Spielberg/Hanks masterpiece...skip this movie.