Hanks is stellar playing an exasperated businessman waiting in Saudi Arabia to meet with the region’s king in hectic adaptation of Dave Eggers’s novelTom Hanks is an inherently likable actor. Hell,he was voted “the most trusted person in America” in a 2013 poll. It’s next to impossible not to fall prey to his everyman charms, and it’s solely thanks to these that his latest film, and A Hologram for a King,is watchable.
Based on Dave Eggers’s best-seller approximately an exasperated American businessman who ventures to Saudi Arabia for a pitch-assembly with the region’s monarch, Tom Tykwers adaptation is a meandering mess of half-baked storylines that amount to little. Hanks’s affable presence keeps it all afloat.
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Source: theguardian.com