Review of Catch Me If You Can (2002) by Shreekara B — 19 Sep 2014

There is a sayings in Sanskrit "Udaranimitham Bahukritha Vesham" - Man changes his shades because for his livelihood, it doesn't matters what he does but the ultimate aim of his all kind of work is to be happy.

''Catch me if you can'' is one such kind of movie that has something to say about the colours of life, this 2002's flick is all about a master conman by the name Frank Abegnale, who is accused for check forgery and praised for being a great trickster and paid for designing a safe checks that at present many banks and the world fortune companies use for the transaction. Well Frank's skill of con begins when he poses himself as a substitute French teacher in his school and when his family get disrupted with his parents taking a divorce he had nothing to do than to make use of his extreme notorious skills of cheating, firstly he get into the shoes of Pan Am co pilot and forges fake checks and eventually he put on the white coat and pose himself as a doctor where he falls in love with Brenda and later he switch his shades to pose as a lawyer, but in this action he is not alone, in this course of time Frank turned to be the most wanted by FBI and he is been chased by the FBI agent Carl who arrest Frank in France, but this tricky fellow escapes from the plane and finally he surrenders and undergo 12 years of imprisonment, but Carl notices his skill and make best use of him in solving various complex check forgeries eventually working for FBI, this is the plot of this neatly narrated movie and thing to be known is that Frank had done all this extraordinary fraud stuff before he was 20!

Leonardo DiCaprio is marvellous with his brilliant performance as Frank Abegnale and Tom Hanks had done a great job in the role of the FBI agent Carl, it's the director Steven Spielberg who magnificently taken the entire story in a very neat flow, Spielberg peculiarity of presenting the scene is awesome, symbolization is great, fine screenplay, overall its a great work by the great team.