Catch Me If You Can (2002)

To me, this movie is perfection.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Catch Me If You Can is great in so many ways. Love the constant movement of this film and Leo's acting. Great storyline.

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN is one of those films that it took me ages to get around to seeing because I thought I wasn't going to like it. I'm no huge fan of Steven Spielberg and the lavish devotion he attracts, even though he's made a lot of films I enjoy. It seemed to me to be a vehicle for a smug Leonardo DiCaprio outwitting the authorities at every turn. Now I've watched it, I admit that I was completely wrong. DiCaprio plays a thoroughly sympathetic character whose side you are on from the outset thanks to a clever set-up involving his relationship with his father, a decent Christopher Walken. The viewer can then sit back and simply enjoy watching him as he attempts to beat the system by becoming a master fraudster. The fact that this is a true story helps a lot too. It's not as assured as Spielberg's deadly serious fare like BRIDGE OF SPIES and MUNICH, but it's much better than his twee, sentimental body of work.

This movie simply combine all the factors of a successful movie, like talented actors, great directing, fascinating 60's scenes, catching story and happy ending.I believe this movie should remain in the memory of everyone who watches it, and it has to be watched by every interested person in movie making. The brilliance of Spielberg meets the talent of DiCaprio and Hanks to come out with that masterpiece.You will enjoy each and every aspect of that movie, you can watch it in whatever mood you are in, and still you will see the beauty in it. You may even watch it more than once and you will never get bored of it.Finally, watch it now.

A rare example of an attempted Spielberg melancholia and it is the most delicate, the most elegant one. Imbued in the spirit of the typical spielbergian disintegration of the family, this one drives on with exquisite taste and grande finesse to a condition (again typical in the director) of familial reinstatement, only this time of a completely different, disillusioned type. A great, unexpected Christmas film, too.