The Terminal

I'm in love with this movie

Great movie and amazing performance by Tom Hanks.

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!

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.

The story of a man stuck in an airport terminal. This story is very loosely based on a real event. Though the appeal of this movie comes clearly from the performances of the main cast that make the movie work as a nice romantic comedy. Just enjoy.

> "You told me you were delayed, you never said it was for nine months!"

Tom Hanks charm and talent know no bounds. Him and Spielberg truly made me care of a man that lives in an airport for months. All the supporting cast have theiir own charm as well (I am looking at you Diego Luna and Zoe Saldaña). I too learned better american mannerisms by watching Friends.

- I understand having a little romance in the movie but surely someone as smart as Viktor would know to avoid Amelia like a plague, she’s a walking mess of issues and needs to switch history books for self-help books

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.

Tom Hanks is fantastic in this movie