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Summary: Thoroughly moving, and thought provoking.
Review: Having just watched Cast Away for the first time, I am left numbed, speechless, and a little down. Don't get me wrong, if a movie leaves me like this it means it's a hell of a good movie. When I'm left in this disposition I am always at my most thoughtful. Cast Away for those of you who don't know, and to be honest I didn't know much about it previously, is a powerful story which tugs hard at the emotions of even the most hardened movie goers. It's the story of Chuck Nolan, a succesful Fed Ex System's Analyser who's job it is to travel the world in a bid to strengthen the reputation of the company. To cut a long story fairly short, his work is demanding. So demanding in fact that he at times neglects the relationship he has with his girlfriend. One Christmas Day he's called away suddenly on important business, and whilst flying over the Pacific is involved in a plane crash from which he survives.The rest you will surely find out for yourselves. Dialogue after this point is few and far between, Hanks' particular relationship that he forms with a Volley Ball of all things is one of the most defining elements of this movie - you may laugh if you haven't yet seen it, but an actor has far, far gone beyond the call of duty when he gets the audience to care about an inanimate object. It's a tale of isolation, 4 years of isolation in fact, 4 years without human interaction - his only inspiration to perservere being a photograph of his beloved girlfriend. There are some fantastically directed scenes in this movie which will force you to choke back tears - ironically, the most significant one being when he loses "Wilson" the volley ball. Interestingly, we see how, on Chuck's return, society is so willing to neglect it's new cast away. The only bad point I can possibly think of would be the BIG ADVERT for Fed Ex, but then again it adds an element of reality. If you buy one DVD this year, make sure you get this.
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Summary: Cast Away Review
Review: Overall I would say this is an excellent movie. Tom Hanks is an AWESOME actor in this movie. I, personally, would have given Hanks the Oscar award for best actor. This movie is drama filled. I could watch this movie over and over again. I encourage you to watch this movie.
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Summary: Outstanding Performance!
Review: How can Gladiator win Best Picture? Gladiator was entertaining and the effects were great but the acting was standard and average. Cast Away DOES have incredible special effects but it's not makes the film amazing, it was the genuine emotional content and Tom Hanks' outstanding performance! It made me cry and it made me realize how many things in life we take for granted. Enjoy your life and Enjoy this film!
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: Cast Away, with Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt, is a good movie. It has a little something for everyone. If you like movies with action, you'll love the plane crash and when Tom Hanks tries to escape the island on the raft. If you like suspense, you're in for it the whole movie! If you like drama, the beginning and the end sequences you'll love. Cast Away is a movie for everyone. The DVD is awesome! There are quite a fre documentaries/featurettes and special effects vignettes. Also included are the Trailers and TV Spots, and more! DTS sound is also included. This is a packed DVD, and a great movie, and should be in every DVD collection.
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Summary: Hanks Superb, Movie So-So
Review: Cast Away reteams director Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks for their first film together since the Award winning Forrest Gump. The film tells the story of a Federal Express employee, Chuck, who is stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific. He is forced to use his wits to survive. The survival scenes are sandwiched in between Chuck's life in Memphis pre and post island. The pre-island scenes show Chuck as a time obsessed man, whose main goal is to make certain packages arrive on time. He shows off his tyrannical devotion to time in the movie's opening scenes where he is training people at a new depot in Moscow. Back home for Christmas, we meet his girlfriend, Kelly, played by Helen Hunt. On Christmas day he is called off again and he promises Kelly he'll be home for New Year's Eve and at the airport they exchange gifts. Kelly gives Chuck a pocket watch and amongst his gifts is an engagement ring. On this flight, the plane encounters turbulence and goes down. The crash is a fiery spectacle that shows off Mr. Zemeckis' skill as a director. Chuck is the lone survivor and he washes up on the island. Armed with only a few items (ice skates, videotapes) from Fed Ex packages, he forced to adapt to live on the album. His lone companion is a volleyball he names Wilson (the ball's maker). Wilson is really an extension of Chuck himself as his "face" was created a bloody palm print of Chuck's own hand. It is on the island where we see the acting skills that make Mr. Hanks the best in the business. Through his struggles to make fire, eat, drink and eventually build a boat to leave the island. He literally all by himself, with only Wilson to interact with. Mr. Hanks' draws our sympathy and we share in his frustrations. We feel his desperation and the scene where he kicks Wilson out of a cave and then desperately searches for him in the dark is utterly heartbreaking. After four years Chuck leaves the island and is rescued at sea. Upon his return to Memphis, he finds that he was of course left for dead and even buried. Kelly has married and has a child. In a tearful reunion, Kelly declares she still loves him, but they both know their relationship can't work. Cast Away suffers in the scenes off the island as they filled with movie cliches and are stiff. The scenes on the island are worth watching to see this generation's greatest actor shine.
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Summary: HANKS AT HIS BEST...
Review: Russell Crowe was, without a doubt, very good in "Gladiator", but Tom Hanks in "Cast Away" is superb. It is in this film, that one finds the actor whose performance was truly Oscar worthy. Those who voted Crowe over Hanks as this year's recipient of the best actor Oscar had their heads in the sand, as Hanks gives a performance that I do not think that even he can equal. This film is like a play in three acts. What life was like before being cast away. What life was like as a castaway. What life was like after being cast away. After having seen the film, the title of the movie is somewhat ambiguous, upon reflection. It could easily refer to the status of Hanks' character during either the middle or ending sequence of the film. I leave it to the viewer to decide this conundrum. Hanks flawlessly plays the role of Chuck Noland (Was there a pun intended here?), a highly energized, time obsessed, systems engineer for Federal Express. On Christmas Eve, he makes a last minute decision to board a flight and escort some packages on a run to their destination. He pops the question to his girlfriend Kelly, played by Helen Hunt, and presents her with an engagement ring just seconds before he boards his ill fated flight. What then happens on that flight is no secret. Suffice to say that it is a wonderfully filmed disaster scene that is sure to strike terror in even the most blase of travelers. The second part of the movie is the crux of the film. For nearly an hour, Hanks is the only living human being on film. He totally carries the day and sustains the film with the power of his performance. We watch as he survives the rigors of his days and copes with the solitude that comes with being marooned on a deserted island for four years, sustained by a photograph of his fiancee, Kelly. Hanks captivates the viewer with his sense of joy and wonder as he creates fire. We watch as his loneliness drives him to invent a friend, Wilson, out of a volleyball that washes ashore. Hanks' performance is such that the viewer mourns the eventual loss of Wilson and experiences the poignancy of that moment when Hanks and Wilson are irrevocably parted. The third part with the film has to do with his being rescued. Having withstood four years as a survivalist on the island, Hanks' character decides that no life is better than the life that he was leading. Making a raft, he makes for the open seas, taking his chances. He is rescued, but after four years the life he left behind has all but disappeared. Kelly has moved on with her life, and he, in effect, has been cast away. It is here that the picture falters somewhat, as there is no happy ending and the film ends somewhat unresolved. Still, it is an excellent film, and Hanks' performance is definitely award calibre.
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Summary: wasted time of my life
Review: 90%(If not 100%) of showing Tom Hanks stuck on an island.
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Summary: Great Story
Review: Well how do you feel after seeing this movie? I felt great to be able to talk to normal people, I know if I went through this ordeal I would never be the same.I just got my copy on DVD and I am very happy to have all the extras that come with it, I'll let you into a secret the DVD so far isn't Enhanced Region Encoded so you Aussie might want to snap up a copy while they last.
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Summary: Where are the Academy Awards?
Review: CAST AWAY is the story of a FedEx executive who has a sudden drastic plane crash on Christmas Day and ends up being stranded on an island for four years alone, then returns home to Memphis after builing a raft. MY REVIEW: "This movie is marvelous! TOM HANKS deserves the Academy Award for BEST ACTOR, not RUSSELL CROWE! Though Crowe was great, Hanks was even better! This movie is powerful, emotional and inspirational! One of the greatest adventure films ever, hoping to teach you a lesson, wanting you to open your eyes and cherish what you have, because it might all be gone in an instant. CAST AWAY is a wonderful movie!"- MJV & the Movies.
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Summary: A good "adventure" flick
Review: First of all, this review is about the movie. All the extras on the DVD are great but bottom line the movie quality has to be there, right? Cast Away is a solid, well done movie. The special effects of the plane crash are heart stopping, and Tom Hanks is wonderful as the main (and really only) character. In fact I enjoyed the movie all the way until he got rescued. At that point the movie got downright depressing. Yes I realize that the idea was to put him into the same issues within a different enviroment, but geez, give the guy a break. The symbolism at this point became way to obvious. For instance, the final scene of Jack standing in the middle of a intersection out in the middle of nowhere looking in all four directions. As if he was at the "crossroads" of his life. Again, I enjoyed this movie overall. However it's also the type of movie I'll never watch again. I would recommend this to any Tom Hanks fan (he's at his best here), any epic movie fan (It's pretty darn long) and any one who really just wants to sit back and enjoy the movie experience.
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