the terminal

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2006)

The terminal starts out very funny, however it starts getting very gay after the first 15 minutes when Tom Hanks enters the Egyptian restaurant in the airport. First of all, the menu items he suggests to the non-English-speaking waiter are not Egyptian, but more African. The decor in the restaurant is also more reminiscent of American-Indian, not Egyptian. I did laugh at the funny loss of translation between them, but for another 20 minutes the progression of the film seemed lackluster. 45 minutes through, however, there is a very funny bit when Hanks decides to start a bat-releasing business inside the terminal and offers free packages of sardines to every customer who wants a bat released. The whole cinema was in hysterics. All in all, aside from those hilarious sections, The Terminal was quite boring. The amount of gruesome violence, gore, and decapitating of passengers did not help to excite things whatsoever, and seemed totally unnecessary... I give this black comedy 4/10.