Tom hanks = good, everything else = bad... - Forrest Gump Reviews

If all you want to see is Tom Hanks with different facial expressions this movies is for you. His acting is outstanding and you can really believe the character that he is playing... That said everything else can be described in one word Dreadful. The story is impossible to believe and sticking Gump in all the possible historical scenarios sounds like a cool idea but not all that funny when it comes out in film. And then this film drags on, and on, and on, and on. Everything in history has to be influenced by Gump. All this would have been acceptable if this movie was an uplifting movie about the triumph of a "less then common man". However all the uplifting emotion is sucked out by the numerous scenes of Jenny. Jenny getting molested by her father, abused by numerous boyfriends, on a verge of suicide and finaly dying of some desease at the end does not a happy movie make. The only thing keeping "Forest Gump" from becoming a disaster is the fact that after suffering through the movie you can read the book by the same name. As opposed to the movie the book does all the right things and clicked with me on all cylinders.