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Enjoyable chase
LEGAL EAGLE: Frank Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) makes a point.
Catch Me if You Can (ENGLISH)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks
Dir: Steven Spielberg
THE SPIRIT of the movies is alive! Praise the Lord for Steven Spielberg returning to what he does super best - tell wonderfully thrilling stories with style and panache. Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, a Spielberg regular, creates lovely golden-hued frames to capture the essence of the swinging sixties and John Williams, another Spielberg regular makes marvellous, happy music.
Starting with the title sequence, one is swept away on a tide of whimsy. Based on a true story - of Frank Abagnale Jr who at 17 became the world's most successful bank robber, Catch Me if You Can, tells the story of Frank, who runs away from home at 16 to become a co-pilot on Pan Am, work as a paediatrician and a lawyer and also steal over four million dollars before his 18th birthday. Hot on his heals is FBI agent Carl Hanratty but Frank always manages to be a step ahead of him.
The ensemble cast fit their roles to a T. Golden boy Leonardo DiCaprio is brilliant as Frank Abagnale Jr. He adopts the role of the man-child as his own leaving one to wonder where Frank ends and DiCaprio begins. DiCaprio proves once again that beneath his swoon-inducing good looks (tweens would swear to it) lurks a competent actor (directors would be willing to swear to it).
Tom Hanks' slips effortlessly into the grim, dour Carl Hanratty persona bringing that special Tom Hanks likeability to the character. Martin Sheen plays Roger Strong, a Lutheran lawyer, whose daughter, Brenda, Frank courts.
Christopher Walken's Frank Abagnale Sr seems an extension of his role as Brendan Fraser's father in A Blast From the Past. It is wonderful to see him play a regular human being instead of usual demented roles of sundry headless horsemen.
While the film is first and foremost a chase film, it is also about fathers, sons, growing up, love, a craving for attention and acceptance like Road to Perdition, which also starred Tom Hanks. However, while Perdition was dank and damp and cold, Catch Me... is a winner for its warm, golden heart.
MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER
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