Good old fashioned film-making

Rating: 9/10 (13 July 2005)

I watched this film for the second time last night, as I recently saw Spielberg's latest, War of the Worlds, and was in a Spielberg mood! What I like about the Terminal is that it, for me, has a lot of similarities to the old Billy Wilder films such as The Apartment and Irma La Douce, in that love/romance springs up in the most unlikely of places or situations. It is great to see modern filmmakers returning to the roots of film-making in this way! There are plenty of humorous elements in this, and the characters are interesting and the storytelling rich. Tom Hanks plays Viktors character very convincingly, and the three friends he meets in the terminal are convincingly portrayed. Nice one!