“Acquire Me If You Can” is the yarn of real-life con artist Frank Abagnale, Jr. who, in the unhurried 1960’s and early 1970’s, when he was between the ages of 16 and 21, wrote $2.5 million dollars in unpleasant checks and became one of the most noted con men in American history. The film follows Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) from his early high school pranks to his check-printing operation and eventual lift in France five years later. FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) doggedly pursues Frank as he successfully impersonates an air line pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, living the life of a playboy and cashing ingeniously forged checks all along the plan.
“Come By Me If You Can” was directed by Stephen Spielberg and, along with Minority Represent, signifies a revival of Spielberg’s directing talent after fifteen years of mediocre-at-best filmmaking. This film is fairly light fare, but it is immensely spirited, comical, touching, and impeccably cast. Frank Abagnale, Jr. is a perfect fit for Leonardo DiCaprio, and is probably his best role since “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape”. Tom Hanks seems to have abandoned his typically saccharine roles this year -much to his credit- and puts in a incredible performance as sympathetic geeky G-man Carl Hanratty (along with a terrific showing in “Road to Perdition”) . Christopher Walken was the only actor to receive an Oscar nomination for “Acquire Me If You Can”. His performance as Frank Abagnale, Sr., our protagonist’s down-and-out father, deserved the honor. Frank Jr.’s awkward combination of admiration and pity for his father seems to have been a key motivator in his distinguished life of crime, and Christopher Walken really helps us understand that.
The sincere Frank Abagnale, Jr. is a successful security consultant these days, protecting businesses from white collar crime. He cooperated with and bascially likes the film, but is posthaste to point out that “Gain Me If You Can” is based on his biography of the same name that was written about 25 years ago. Mr. Abagnale says that some aspects of his experiences were exaggerated in that book and some have been altered for the movie as well. Whatever the inaccuracies, Frank Abagnale, Jr.’s substantial intelligence, ambition, and guts are the most striking elements of the film. It’s the rarity of finding all of these qualities in such abundance in one person that produce Frank’s character so spirited, and perform him one of cinema’s most lovable antiheroes.
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I highly recommend “Pick Up Me If You Can” for its gargantuan performances and its extremely inspiring chronicle of an ingenious con man and his grand pursuer…made all the more sharp because the epic is largely legal.
and the message is, “Sometimes, I’m gonna do a film where I fair try to entertain you”. And entertain it did!
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Reviewers of the movie are at odds, either giving it high praise, when they peruse that it is impartial there to entertain the filmgoer, or calling it awful, when they put a question to every Spielberg movie to be a momentous event of special effects and storytelling. “Derive Me If You Can” is based on the life of a con man, who pulled his crimes as a teenager, and then reformed for the rest of a long life. The yarn engrosses the watcher, and Spielberg gives the film a light touch, a terrific cast, and fits it all into the eerily genuine culture of the 60’s everyday life with costumes (wardrobe is outstanding), period sets, and a general feeling of wonder (Remember “The Wonder Years”? ) that was the legal 60’s feel, devoid of momentous political events and the inevitable strife caused by war.
DiCaprio is featured as an weird duck, an obsessive compulsive trapped in escalating acts designed to produce his father feel that his life is successful. He shows some vast naivete, especially in the scene criticized by many with Jennifer Garner, and displays the genial and gripping manner that the true Frank must have had to pick up away with what he did.
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Hanks is another believable work obsessive compulsive who chases him down and forms the nucleus of the nonviolent criminal teams that solve financial crimes in this country every day. Bringing Frank to the FBI feels a itsy-bitsy incredible, but it DID happen, and it was based on Hanratty’s notion and faith in not only the genius, but also the need of Abagnale to outsmart the world. I’m obvious it was a huge
financial success for law enforcement in the valid world.
Many seem surprised at the attractive flair that Christopher Walken displays as Frank’s father, but Walken’s career is burly of moments like these, where he has flashes of a honest craftsman, then does an over the top performance in his next role…kind of a roller coaster gallop with this stunning performer, you never know what to quiz.
The audience clapped in the film I saw, enjoyed the music, had a spacious time…now that’s entertainment! Find Me If You Can blends light comedy with a background edge of why things turn out the plan they do when families dissolve. It may be the most enchanting movie (short of My Large Plump Greek Wedding) of 2002; and although it doesn’t deserve to salvage any awards….
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sometimes Spielberg should honest entertain us! He’s earned it.
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