I finished watching this last night while exercising. I give it three stars. It’s a well acted, well directed and reasonably entertaining film that’s based on a true story about a teenager who runs away from home when his parents split up in the early 1960’s. He becomes the most notorious check kiter in the history of the country, racking up something north of $4 million in bad checks. Leonardo Dicaprio plays the kid and Tom Hanks plays the good hearted but bumbling FBI agent trying to catch him. The movie is a little on the dry side and I thought they pushed the ‘it’s all because of the tragedy of his parents splitting up’ angle a little too hard, but all in all I enjoyed it.

I find it interesting that Hanks chose to play the role of the FBI agent in this movie. He plays it very low key and there’s not much for him to work with. Because of this I would have expected a less prestigious actor in the role. He does a credible job, it’s just like…his talents are wasted here.