Steven Spielberg (“Jurassic Park”) is in the director’s seat for this average movie based on a true story of one of history’s most famous con artists and fraudsters. I would have preferred to see either a documentary on these true events or a movie with a similar concept as I thought it was a little anticlimactic and boring a lot of the time despite featuring some great ideas.

“Catch Me If You Can” follows the life of Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonard DiCaprio “Titanic”, “Inception”), who successfully managed to pass himself off as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer for cheque fraud all before his 21st birthday.

Leonard DiCaprio is sadly mediocre at best as Frank Abagnale Jr. Tom Hanks (“Big”, “The Green Mile”) plays the F.B.I agent Carl Hagratty who is on the trail of Frank. He is superb and I wish the film focused on him rather than Abagnale. The scene where Abagnale fools Hagratty by pretending to be a Secret Service agent is brilliant and the best part of the film. Christopher Walken (“Pulp Fiction”) is okay as Frank Abagnale Sr., which is a shame as I think Walken can be a really good actor at times.

The opening credits of the film, which features slick stick people animation and detective film music, really made me think I was going to watch a great movie about how a man goes around conning people and Hanks’ character was going to be always only a few steps behind him. Sadly, lots of the film is quite bland and I wish they hadn’t based the film on a true story and made their own as I saw really potential in the concept but sadly the individual scenario isn’t that great. If they were going to base a movie on the real Frank Abagnale Jr. I would have preferred a documentary.