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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