All this naive people...

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2011)

First of all, I don't use to review titles or anything... Just an argument took me to read all the negative feedback to this movie, and I couldn't stand reading it without sharing my two cents.
This movie deserves the 7.2/10 it has today.
The clichéd Hanks performance... well, could be better, could be worse. A movie for the masses can stand this main character... Still.
The main argument we can read in every negative feedback goes something like this: "They know that Hanks doesn't understand English! Why do they keep talking to him en English?." Well, mainly because it is all they can do. It is not because they are stupid, or the plot is stupid. People work like this. If you go to a foreign country nobody will go and find out someone who can help them to communicate with you. This takes work. Work takes effort. NOBODY, NEVER, will waste their time on you. And this is some part of the message of this film.
"He has a dictionary, why don't they use it?" Same reason. Who will waste time on it? I know what's being in the detention of an Airport because of a mistake in the bureaucracy stuff. It was just two days, but still, I know what it is. They not just keep talking to you in their language, but they tell you to sing papers you don't understand so they can get rid of you. This is how this world works.
This movie is a fairy tale. It ends "well". This is why it is not a 10/10.
What really would happen in this situation is that they would knock Hanks into jail at the first law he brakes up and forget him until the end of the days. This is our world.