From The Movie Snob:

The Terminal (C+). For some reason I just couldn't embrace this light summer movie. Maybe I'm getting too old and cynical, I don't know. The premise sounded promising enough: Tom Hanks plays a fellow from an Eastern European nation that falls into civil war while he is on a flight to New York. Consequently, his passport is invalid when he lands, and he is consigned to a legal limbo--unable to enter the U.S. and equally unable to return to his war-torn homeland. So he has to live in international lounge area of the airport indefinitely, until the situation in his home country settles down enough to give him a normal national status again. Hanks's performance is fine, but too much of the rest of the movie didn't work for me. The bureacrat-in-charge at the airport, played by Stanley Tucci, is too consistently and inexplicably mean to the hapless Hanks to be believable. Hanks's delicate relationship with a gorgeous flight attendant (the gorgeous Catherine Zeta-Jones) is nice enough, but it suffers from some unbelievable moments along the way too. There's some other unbelievable and sappy stuff too. By the end, I was more than ready to get out of that danged airport.