A Hologram for the King

This isn't the best Tom Hanks film, his starring in it is a symptom of its "failure to launch".

"A Hologram for the King" doesn't fit as an American movie. I kept imagining other actors and scenarios all through it. Mats Mikkelson, Ken Watanabe, Javier Bardem especially Stellan Skarsgard could have really punched the role. Turning the story from a US-Saudi interaction to something else, would've chanced it better.

Scandanavian-Saudi rings most true to me.

That didn't happen, so we have Hanks being a génial, fish out of water, slightly victimized man with a deadline.

His driver was ably played by Alexander Black. Humourous, earnest and sympathetic to both tradition, and his charges frustration with it.

Sarita Choudhury, is a fine actor and here, kind of centres an aimless story.

Tom Skerritt is credited, his "role" undeveloped to a non entity.

Casting in general OK, but not memorable.

The scenery is marvelous, some of the architecture indicative of the international credibility sought in the region.

The story is thin however, and not awfully resolving, another fifteen minutes dialoguing the why's, behind the what's would not have been remiss.

Not one memorable line, flat unprovoking script. Get a real over edited resonance about the whole deal.

There is a globalization angle, workable, yet the topic is merely grazed by.

Not offensive, but well below what the premise might have realized.

Too high at a 6, but I'll give it that for the look of it.