I’d so have a meal and drink there – maybe get my shopping on. I really liked the aesthetics of the film and that terminal rocks. Don’t get me wrong I would still consider The Terminal a Steven Spielberg misfire but the style over substance aspect of it really shines on.
The stellar supporting cast featuring Diego Luna, Zoe Zaldana, Kumar Pallana, Chi McBride, among others really pulled the film together for me.
Now you may be asking yourself then why would I be giving The Terminal a 3-star? Well, the film is entertaining and I found Hanks’ performance endearing as I did Stanley Tucci, who is not a bad person but works his way up to gradually becoming one. She’s having an affair with a married man. Amelia, for her part, has issues of her own. They develop a sort of rapport through there interactions (at this point Viktor’s been squatting at the airport for almost a year) and he believes that he is falling in love with her.
Her character, Amelia, is a flight attendant at the international terminal Viktor is stuck in. Shame on you advertising, for shame! Actually, looking back at it, it’s of no real importance. The trailer led me to believe that she was the prospective actress. In fact, her character isn’t even introduced until almost the first hour of the feature. Oh, did I mention that Catherine Zeta-Jones is also in the film? I didn’t? That’s because she’s only in the film for like 10 minutes. It’s more than competently directed by Spielberg but the real meat and potatoes of it is lacking. The Terminal is not a great or very good film. He doesn’t know what’s going on his country to begin with! Hijinx will surely ensue as Viktor meets people, gets into adventures, and finds redemption in the one woman he knows he can never have…or something similar. It sounds easy enough but Viktor cannot speak English, so those traditional lines of communication are ineffective, as he no way of sorting through the mess he’s in. For the time being, Viktor must stay in the international terminal of the airport, cannot leave, and has to surrender his passport. Frank Dixon (Stanley Tucci) is the head of homeland security/customs of that particular airport and has let poor Viktor know the unfortunate predicament he is now in. This all happened right as Viktor was entering U.S. has restricted travel to and from the conutry. The bad news for Viktor is that his country is in the midst of a revolution and the U.S. Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) is on an international flight to New York from his native Krakozhia (a fictitious country for the purposes of this film, FYI). It couldn’t be all bad, right? Fast forward ten years and I have just watched The Terminal on Blu-ray and I’m happy to say that The Terminal is nowhere near the train wreck the marketing made it out to be. When I saw that Steven Spielberg had directed it I was in even more shock, because we were riding high from his previous films that had recently come out like: Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, and A.I. What The Terminal did have were some powerhouse leads like Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones. I remember watching the trailer to The Terminal like ten years ago and thinking it looked horrible. I’m sure we all have airport horror stories but they compare to Hanks’ tale of being a citizen without a country? We shall see. Coming up we will be reviewing The Terminal starring Tom Hanks and Catherine Zeta-Jones and featuring an all-star ensemble cast with the likes of Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana, and more. It’s a double whammy of sorts with TWO Steven Spielberg films being released on Blu-ray stateside for the first time.
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