http://www.filmjunk.com/2004/06/23/the-terminal/ Blog and Podcast Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:41:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.filmjunk.com/2004/06/23/the-terminal/comment-page-1/#comment-3654 Sean Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 http://209.123.84.9/spacejunk/2004/06/23/the-terminal/#comment-3654 My problem with The Terminal is that it relies too much on fish out of water jokes and it can't decide if it wants to be serious or completely exagerrated. It doesn't seem plausible that Catherine Zeta-Jones would ever fall for Tom Hanks' character, and Stanley Tucci's character is evil for no good reason other than to give the movie an antagonist. It just isn't a story worth telling, at least not by Steven Spielberg. I agree the cinematography is the best reason to see it, but I think it's the weakest Spielberg movie to date. Well, maybe aside from Hook. My problem with The Terminal is that it relies too much on fish out of water jokes and it can’t decide if it wants to be serious or completely exagerrated. It doesn’t seem plausible that Catherine Zeta-Jones would ever fall for Tom Hanks’ character, and Stanley Tucci’s character is evil for no good reason other than to give the movie an antagonist. It just isn’t a story worth telling, at least not by Steven Spielberg. I agree the cinematography is the best reason to see it, but I think it’s the weakest Spielberg movie to date. Well, maybe aside from Hook.

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