#CATHERINE ZETA JONES THE TERMINAL MOVIE#
It is only when we are supposed to feel something other than humor that the movie misses a step.
#CATHERINE ZETA JONES THE TERMINAL FULL#
Spielberg captures the ethnic diversity and multi-culturalism of New York's JFK and it looks as if the costume designer, Mary Zophres, had her hands full creating the wide ranging, colorful ensembles worn by the hundreds of extras that file through the movie in a continuous stream. The entire terminal was designed, engineered and built just for this movie. Like when I picture a lonely, desperate woman Catherine Zeta-Jones is the first one that comes to mind. This drop dead gorgeous woman is hopelessly in love with an older, married man who treats her like a door stop. Not only is she underused (we are never for a moment allowed to forget that this is a star vehicle for Hanks) but her character is not only basically pathetic but totally unbelievable. Every day Viktor fills out the proper form and submits it to her for judgement. She is the woman whose job it is to stamp passports either accepted or denied. He also gets great assistance from the supporting cast, especially Barry Shabaka Henley as a paranoid plate juggling janitor from India, and Diego Luna a love sick young airport employee who supplies Viktor with food in exchange for information about the object of his affections. Hanks' accent is wonderful and he really seems to be enjoying himself. But before you can say 'happily ever after' Viktor is making friends with all of the airport employees, doing impressive construction work on an unfinished section of the terminal (he also 'lives' in this area - gate 67), and wooing a beautiful American flight attendant (Zeta-Jones).ĭespite the situation comedy set up (or perhaps because of it) The Terminal fares best when it is being funny. He is up for a promotion and Viktor is a thorn in his side. Soon he figures out a few basic survival tricks and has a few mild confrontations with airport boss Stanley Tucci. Initially he speaks only a few words of English and is overwhelmed and confused by his new environment. This is your basic fish-out-of-water set-up.
In other words he must stay in the airport indefinitely. Due to beaurocratic redtape - that is never completely plausible - he is unable to enter the United States or to go back home. While his flight to New York is in mid-air a war breaks out in his homeland, the fictional Eastern European country of Krakozhia. He is fat in this instead of thin, is stranded in an airport terminal instead of on an island and instead of being alone he is constantly surrounded by thousands of strangers. Tom Hanks, meanwhile, has found the perfect inverse of his movie Cast Away.
Now he gives us The Terminal a feel good comedy that nicely bookends Catch Me if You Can. Back in the nineties he made the WWII epics Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan then at the beginning of the new millenium there came the slightly edgy sci/fi movies A.I. Steven Spielberg appears to be making movies in pairs.
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