What the heck is with the story just passed the half-way mark?!

So, I just finished watching this movie and I was enjoying it quite a bit; that is, until about just after the half-way mark where the movie goes full retard on several fronts:

- Apparently Tom Hank's character is proficient in multiple trades, and not only that, but made that insane murual-fountain thing. I get the guy has a lot of time on his hands, but there's no way this would have even been allowed to been completed for obvious reasons. Then he gets hired by those sub contractors who just ASSUME he's with the other crew, but I can forgive that because what kind of a person would do free work just because they are bored? very very few... Then on top of that, the director claims that tom hanks' 19$ an hour is more pay than he gets as a DIRECTOR. A DIRCTOR getting paid that lowly of a salary. Ridiculous!

- The dinner with Catherine Zeta Jones with those three staffing members; the dinner is used as a plot device so that the two can bond over conversation and bla bla bla, I get that, but why the three guys? Completely unrealistic and no one would be sticking around on their personal time to pull something off like this. There wouldn't even be a place like that in the airport for the dinner itself.

- The foreign dude in a red suit who is in love with the black chick who also happens to be a trekkie (COME ON!)? That was real desperate and the fact they got married practically overnight is almost a sign to me that the writer(s) have some extremely unrealistic expectations about romantic love. I know people from time to time get married very fast, but this is not something you should want to encourage in a movie. That's just irresponsible in my opinion considering how rare such arrangements even work out. Literally, almost over night!!!!

- After that plane gets stopped on the runway (from that Indian guy running towards it with a mop.... ) Tom Hanks decides he wants to stay in new york for some reason, despite the fact that the other two guys are still potentially in a position to lose their jobs. Okay then.... they are his "family" now. Yeah the one guy says to Tom Hanks that he doesn't have to leave and that "we're your family now." I had to roll my eyes. That's a bit much to declare towards someone who is basically a stranger in the most literal sense of the word...

- And then you have the crowd of all of the airport staff running down to give Tom Hanks free stuff. I seriously doubt these people took the time to pay for the items themselves, LOL! Mass theft and love all around! I felt like I was being trolled for a second when this scene came on.

- The captain of the guards or whatever, blocks Tom Hanks, and then proceeds to giving him his coat so that he can illegally enter the USA (and because it's cold outside). WTF WERE THEY THINKING! Yeah, this guy is going to give up a good paying job by doing something so blatantly stupid like this and ON CAMERA! Oh man, the writers got real lazy. Unbelievable. Unrealistic is too kind a word used to describe the events here. The word "fantasy" comes more to mind instead.

- After basically being made a fool of by his own men, the director of security or whatever his role is, smiles in delight that Tom Hanks got away. AGAIN, WTF????? If someone makes you out to be a giant fool at work, you will generally be PISSED because now your reputation has been negatively affected. This makes ZERO sense. Especially given how egotistical that prick was.

I'm shocked that they didn't resolve these issues before concluding production, the movie could have ended a lot better without the excessive feel-good and pro-immigrant message that were pushed on to the viewer. Such a waste. It was all right, though aside from the above points I made.

One more thing, this movie was made in 2004, in other words post 9/11, there is NO WAY AT ALL any of the above would have even been remotely possible. What a joke. However, one of the writers who developed the script wrote and directed "Lord of War (2005)" (now THAT is a master piece worth watching! Totally underrated)