I found this film frustratingly emotional but lacking the ability to really push me towards caring about the characters that I wanted to care about. I've read about many of the scenes that Spielberg painted in this film (from past documentaries on him) and I felt like this was just a collection of those scenes and the ending scenes were all rather pointless. I think a real historical drama on Spielberg getting various movies made ( like Jaws or Close encounters) with his teenage years just given a (first half of the movie) sequence, would have worked better. Overall, it was okay, entertaining enough to keep my kind off the flight I was on, however, it's not Spielberg's best work.