Tom Hanks Hustile: Catch Me If You Can

The saying that all of us used to tell friends and siblings when we were outside playing.. "cate me if you can". Now we find ourselves seeing that line played out by Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Frank Abagnale is a young man who life is being turned upside down. His father is loosing his business and all of their money, and on top of all of that his parents are in the middle of a divorce. He decides that he is going to get away and try to make some money so he can put his family back together. However, this is the story of a young person going out to take on the world that you have normally heard. Mr. Abagnale has a very different way of running through life. He goes out start committing check fraud on a global scale when he starts posing as a Pan America World Airways Piolet. As his scheme gets bigger he goes to even more extremes to pose as a doctor and a lawyer and all before he turns 19.

So, when I was thinking about what actor to watch all of their movies Leo DiCaprio was one of the finalist for me. He has done everything and he is a phenomenal actor. The reason I did not pick him was because while he does has a diverse acting career I felt that Tom Hanks' was a smidge more diverse. It's still nice to see a movie that Mr. DiCaprio is in that I haven't seen before. 

To be honest I was not sure how to feel about this movie. I mean everyone has seen the scene in the Gif above even if it's just a clip everyone knows what movie it's from. Catch Me If You Can is an unexpected charm of the extraordinary perseverance of a young man doing wrong trying to make things right. This is a story that seem too good to be real. That it should only exists in the realm of the moving picture. The fact that such a man as remarkable as Frank Abagnale is a real true person it's no wonder that a movie was made about him. 

Well you can't very well just scream Catch Me If You Can without someone to chase you. The other half of this story is Carl Hanratty, FBI Fraud Agent hell bent on bringing down Abagnale at almost any cost. He literally chased Abagnale all over the world in order to bring him to justice. However, he also brings him to a new life. He eventually brings Abagnale to the check fraud division of the FBI in order to help find other committing the same crime. Hanratty does this with a very dry sense of humor all along the way. 

I have to say that this movie was so much fun to watch. Like I said I wasn't sure about. I was not sure if this was going to be boring, to action packed, or what I was thinking about. I love movies that surprise me. I love that this movie has been out for years and talked about several times and nothing was spoiled for me. The fact that I get to be surprised by a movie still to this day is crazy. I can not wait to see more of these surprises in the future.