Surprisingly good. Tom Hanks is a brilliant actor. The soundtrack is also worth mentioning.
Very enjoyable, cute movie. Almost everyone can empathize with Viktor. I don't normally enjoy comedies too much, but this one wasn't the usual slapstick or toilet humor.
You'd think a movie about a guy stuck in an airport for months would be boring but Spielberg somehow managed to pull it off. He did a great job and made me cry, as usual.
Just not believable as such, only loosely based on a true story (in the real life the character has mental health issues, and is in great part responsible for being stuck)
Wholesame, fun family-movie. Sadly not without (Story-)flaws. Along with "Catch Me If You Can" (2002) one of Spielbergs more friendlier movies he wanted to shoot after the Events of 9/11 to lift the mood in the country and the world.
The Story is loosely based/inspired by the real-life-events of Mehran Karimi Nasseri (and his book "The Terminal Man" from the same year as the movie), an Iranian refugee who lived at the departure lounge of the Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years, from 1988 until 2006.
I found it nice. The director and the actors make things go well. Tom Hanks and Spielberg's union continues to function
THE TERMINAL starts off uniquely non-spielberg, more attune to a Coen Brothers comedy by its performance and edit. Good news to me, not to be disappointed by Act 2 as the story progression shines through a classic Spielberg block and John Williams eastern inspired score. Tom Hanks never drops the ball in his performance, as his character may progress in his understanding of the English language and culture, his character retains his quirk.
Act 3 could be mistaken for any alternative in Spielberg's repertoire as its unique premise fades into its fullest progression, simultaneously lending itself as a film extending its run-time to a ridiculous degree.
For a film taking place in one geographical location I was for the most part impressed by the film's ability to fill it's feature, which it did up until a point where the direction and use of score becomes that of a cliché Xmas film, without semblance of the deadpan comedic elements introduced, instead replaced with a common and overdrawn structure of your average and plain feel good film.
You could argue it's better Spielberg lends the 3rd act to fulfil his style of film-making by taking a unique concept and an unusual genre by his standard and then morphing it into a film hes already made 10 times over, another falling deeper into Spielberg's Venus Flytrap of creative Bankruptcy.
6.5/10
Its an ok movie, nothing special. Spielberg does a good job on this smaller scale movie. Tom Hanks is good but I still can't get past how they casted him as an immigrant, he is like the whitest guy in hollywood.
Well directed and cool movie with a great perfomance from Tom Hanks once again.This guy's story is incredible for sure. 7.2/10
Watched this movie yesterday again after a decade. Totally different feeling. The first time I watched it was when I was some 6-7 years old, on a train journey, where my father was watching it and I asked him "Could I watch it?". Once he was done, he handed me his phone, and I watched it. Although, I don't exactly remember what I felt after the movie back then, but I was enjoying it, specially Tom Hanks' portrayal as a silly person; the broken English and childlike vibe resonated with little me. Yesterday, when I watched it again, it was a bit nostalgic for me, but not that much as it was more like watching the film for the first time, since I remembered almost nothing, except the scene where he arranges all those trolleys and gets some change out of it. Still, a very good movie, which feels heartwarming at times and you really feel for the main character as he sails from one moment to another. Overall, a great Feel-Good movie worth revisiting.
What seems to be an interesting and intriguing plot turns out to be a silly low budget film. Yea it’s funny and decently enjoyable but the film drags on too long and some plot points are unnecessary and make the overall plot a bit confusing.
When you try to judge the movie objectively, there's no doubt it's very flawed. A ton of things in here make very little sense, are oversimplified or overly sugar-coated, to the point where this becomes basically a fairytale. You can see the broad strokes, the emotional manipulation and pandering all over it. The casting of Tom Hanks for this Bulgarian-speaking guy from Eastern Europe shouldn't even work. That being said, I have a very hard time judging the movie purely that way because it manages to be just so incredibly sweet... and this is coming from someone who tends to have a more cynical view on most "feelgood movies".
A lot of the time you can practically feel the movie doing everything it can to distract you from the problems that are definitely there on paper, but even despite that it somehow works. Tom Hanks being Tom Hanks is already doing a great deal of the work, the stellar cast around him certainly helps as well, the movie looks great (though the color grading is pretty aggressive and noticeable), the comedy mostly works and you just end up being swept up in this warm and fuzzy feeling that the movie manages to evoke.
While this does not make this an absolutely superb movie, it definitely is a very enjoyable watch that kept me engaged despite the rather long runtime for a film like this. If the presentation does not work for you and you find yourself looking too much past it, the movie will collapse from the inside. But if it does, you will come out of this movie with a smile on your face.
so glad that i didn't fall asleep.
A masterpiece of an acting!
Great movie and amazing performance by Tom Hanks.
Tom Hanks dons a thick sorta-Russian accent on his way to a life of legal limbo, operating in perpetuity from his suitcase in an airport terminal. It's got the seed of an interesting story, and no shortage of talent to see it through, but fails to click in even the most remote sense.
It's baffling to me that it's Spielberg in the director's chair here, because The Terminal is so bland, run-of-the-mill and pandering that it feels like the work of a tentative first-timer who's terrified to let the material breathe. The entire cast is painted with the broadest of strokes, from Hanks's childish, confused stranger in a strange land to Stanley Tucci's ridiculously scheming US Customs official, and I quickly grew tired of their telegraphed games. Weak and pointless, with a needlessly stretched runtime, it's dull, flaky space filler at best.
Tom Hanks is fantastic in this movie
Chick flick about a man having stranded at the terminal of an airport. Well...
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I don't know how many times I've watched this film. One more time I caught it on tv and I couldn't resist.
Viktor Navorski is probably one of the sweetest characters in cinema and one of my favorite Tom Hanks performances.
It's so sweet and warm, I always feel great after watching it!