Catch Me If You Can is ostensibly about an interesting cat-and-mouse chase. But really its a Spielberg hommage to the 1960s. That's fine insofar as it goes but this film just has no real anchor to it. Some sharp dialogue and flashy visuals can't save a pretty empty picture.
The main character is so infuriating unsympathetic that one wonders if Spielberg is trying for some bit of modernism. No such luck. It's a deadly serious bit of overexpensive fluffery that wastes its budget on a minor figure.
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