Catch Me If You Can tells the true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. and his days as con artist and forger in his youth. With Steven Spielberg as director, DiCaprio as the lead and Tom Hanks as the FBI guy chasing him, it's no surprise this movie have been praised by many. Add in supporting roles by the likes of Jennifer Garner, Christopher Walken, Amy Adams and Martin Sheen, and it's no doubt a box office success or an award nominated one in the making.
Still. The story doesn't really have a lot of interest beyond the obvious mystery about this young man able to con his way through both the states and Europe. It's interesting enough, but there isn't much more to the story. Some of the trickery displayed is movie-worth, but mostly it's very dull everyday charming and without depth. At least that's the way I feel about it, and it probably didn't help either being a really long movie for the little it had to offer.
The acting is good throughout. DiCaprio and Hanks does well with what they got to dig into, but it's really not that challenging stuff. The same can be said about the supporting roles. Most interesting is probably Walken as the father, and he does as usual deliver. I did also as usual enjoy Amy Adams, but like Garner and every other female role in this movie, it's a sad excuse of a part. Either Abagnale Jr. really didn't like women that much (the movie is based on his own book), or maybe Spielberg don't like them. Whatever reasons. The women is very simple in this story, even compared to the shallow land of the male characters.
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