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Summary: SURVIVAL!
Review: A work-alcoholic's life is changed when as the lone survivor of a plane crash, he is cast adrift on a remote island. Tom Hanks performance as this latter- day Robinson Crusoe is remarkable. Helen Hunt, as the bereaved finacee who finally weds another man is heart-breaking. The film is based on a true experience. Well worth seeing.
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Summary: Once again Tom is Great!!
Review: Just in a few words, Another Tom Hanks great!! A very moving story, rent or buy this one you'll see what I mean. Someday way in the future we'll look back on all the great actors of this century and Tom Hanks will be one of the greatest!
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Summary: Only Tom Hanks could do it
Review: On screen alone for a long time, with little conversation and less background music, only Tom Hanks could pull it off. The story line is an old one - lost on a "desert" island and left to his own resources. How he handles his limited resources, including his own sanity, is the meat of this film. It is sensitive, at times stressful, and a feather in Tom Hanks' cap. You will find yourself looking fondly on FedEx and volleyballs.
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Summary: One Fantastic Acting Job
Review: Since such a desert island scenario involves isolation, the plot thus must by its nature involve such boredom as fishing, scavinging for food, etc.Hanks pulls this off superbly. I was surprised that this kept my attention. Was smart enough to realize that the opening scene of the sculpter would be tied into with the FedEx delivery. Wilson was a treat! Ending was well conceived. Left one's mind to the imagination to fill in the blank. Very enjoyable.
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Summary: What's the message?
Review: This movie strives to give some profound message but aside from a few platitudes and the Fed Ex placement ads I can't figure out what it is.There are some poignant moments when Tom Hanks'character is on the deserted island with his only friend,a volleyball courtesy of a fed ex package.After 4 years Hanks character manages to piece together a raft and drifts until a ship spots him and picks him up.Back in civilization you expect the character to experience an epiphany of some sort but nothing happens.This movie tried too hard to be earnest but really had nothing to say.Ambitious yes,but a very disappointing movie.
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Summary: Please no, not more
Review: This tired retelling of the Robinson Crusoe story is not only dull, it's also distinctly ordinary. Whilst Zemeckis touched his audience with 'Forrest Gump' and scared them all with 'What Lies Beneath', this is a film that seems to have been released purely to show us all Tom Hanks' formidable acting skills. In the film Hanks plays Chuck, who is separated from his wife after his plane crashes and he, the only survivor, is forced to eke out an existence on a tropical island for four years, forging a friendship with a ball called Wilson. Whilst Hanks' acting is undoubtedly good, he always seems to play Mr. Joe Regular and the scenes on the island are incredibly dull. We see Chuck light a fire, smash a coconut and fish. This makes up the majority of the movie, with themes such as madness being explained away with a frankly bizarre 'friendship' with a ball. In this lies the movie's main failure - it's not particularly bad but it is particularly dull. Devoid of any other characters - save Helen Hunt as his wife in a role so minimal it even rivals Laura Dern's in 'Jurassic Park III' - we're forced to concentrate on the same things over and over. Still, the airplane crash is stunningly done and the ending is thankfully a little less contemporary than would be expected. Yet compared alongside, Zemeckis' other film that year - 'What Lies Beneath' - this is nothing. Just another stepping stone in Tom Hanks career as he garners yet more award nominations.
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Summary: No meat...
Review: The only movie Tom stars in which we were dissapointed to see. Nothing to the story. We walked away feeling like "I don't get it"
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Summary: expected more from it
Review: good movie, but dragged on a little at times
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Summary: GREAT, I WISH I COULD GIVE IT MORE STARS
Review: I loved it, it is fantastic, Tom Hanks had a tough job in going against Russell Crowe, but lets face it, Hanks has already 2 awards, let's give the new guy a chance. But never mind, Cast Away is fantastic, again Robert Zemeckis surprises us with a great movie, it is very sad, but this is what makes it so great, never in my life had I ever felt like crying in a movie, not the bomb Titanic, or the spectacular Gladiator, neither Lion King or all the other sad films made it for me, but Cast Away, it sure hit me, Tom Hank's character Chuck Noland is very real and very well played, well let's face it, it was Tom Hanks, and he really gets you, you feel with him his happiness and his sadness. Two scenes specially got me, when he looses Wilson, some people say to me the crying over a ball is dumb, but watch the movie and you will see why is that so sad. And when he gets home and realises the he has lost Kelly (Helen Hunt which has a short but memorable role), the scene with the two of them in the rain and, well all the last 20 or 30 minutes are very emotional but very well acted, written and directed, plus the 7 minutes of music of Alan Silvestri, which is the only soundtrack the movie has, those 7 minutes are beautiful, just that was enough, the movie is so good it does not need a proper soundtrack. To be honest, I had never seen a movie like this, this movie sure is great, again 5 stars are not enough, this DVD, although the special features are not my type of features, the are still good. The sound is great, the picture even better. A must-have.
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Summary: Disappointing...
Review: I wanted to like this movie. Really I did. It had so much potential. But it was long, boring, and completely unbelieveable. Usually whether or not a movie is believeable doesn't matter to me. But this one just appalled me so much that it was disgusting. The movie started out well... but once the plane crashes and Tom Hanks ends up on the island... well, that's where it all goes downhill. Why? Because it's the most boring thing ever to be put on screen. There isn't even any music to keep you going. It's just Tom Hanks on an island. Where's the entertainment in that? My other big problem with this film is in the ending, and I think I'll refrain from discussing that here, just in case someone reads this and still wants to see the movie. I don't like to ruin movies for people--even if they're bad movies. I do agree that Tom Hanks did a good job with this movie. It's the movie itself that was bad.
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