Review – Catch Me If You Can

The whole time I was watching this movie I couldn’t help but wonder if it wouldn’t have been a better production in the hands of a talented indie rather than being helmed by the ever-grandiose Steven Spielberg. Of course Leonardo di Caprio and Tom Hanks didn’t help matters much; the former ran out of the boyish charm required for his role several years back, and the latter keeps trying a Boston accent that sounds more like the unwelcome resurgence of Forrest Gump. The story itself is entertaining in a when’s-the-con-man-protagonist-finally-going-to-get-caught sort of way, but the plot twists only sustain the production for roughly half its total running time. Mildly amusing