Cast Away

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Summary: Not the best movie
Review: Cast Away is a ok movie. Its about a guy who works for Fed-Ex and the airplane he is on crashes and he survies and lives on a island for 3 years by himself. The guy gets weird and talks to a volyball that has blood on it. Unless you like movies about people who live on islands alone dont watch Cast Away.

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Summary: Lonely in Paradise.
Review: This started out to be a good, regular movie -- and Tom Hanks was a handsome administrator of a nationally known company. The scene in Russia was fabulous with his proving his point that it takes much too long to deliver packages long distance, or here in America. He's an excellent actor, but as the movie progressed he regressed into a savage from a jungle. Not just the ultimate survivor on an isolated island somewhere no one else ever comes near.

I kept wanting some of the Gilligan's Island silliness to intervene with his deterioration mentally. "Wilson" was the substitute for a real companion, yet only a volleyball gone astray.

When I saw it was FedEx featured in this film, it delighted me as several weeks ago I wrote to the owner of a local radio station that maybe he'd never heard of FedEx. It was taking too long to get a part for the transmitter for his station which aired "Music Of Your Life" network. A few months previously, the same part was needed after a storm struck the antenna and it was 2 months or more before the network was back on local airwaves. This time, the part apparently was never ordered. So my reference to FedEx was not impressive to him as he owns a large sports equipment company in Nashville. No FedEx for him!

The preview to becoming a castaway was entertainment par excellence. Afterward, however, his character becomes a mental case and it was not easy to watch. Surely no place could be that isolated so as not to even have birds or animals, only a small type of fish and a scorpion which he ate -- showing he is the ultimate survivor.

If he'd been stranded in Iceland or the North Pole, the story might have been believable, but on a beautiful island in the middle of nowhere was just too much.

Thank goodness, he switched to playing character actors after that ordeal which suits him better anyway, for he is a good actor. The movie itself was not much and very little dialogue which made it almost like watching a silent movie from the olden days with the exceptions of his grunts and guttural 'help's.

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Summary: A WELL MADE MOVIE.
Review: "Cast Away" reunites once again the awarded team Zemeckis / Hanks, and once again they made a good film. There are several remarkable aspects in "Cast Away": overall the cinematography is excellent, the photography is quite realistic and Tom Hank's characterization is also great.

Robert Zemeckis and William Broyles (screenwriter) showed a lot of creativity by including the lovable character "Wilson", definitely a character to remember. "Cast Away" sometimes feels and looks so realistic that you really feel trapped in a lonely island with Tom Hanks. You will suffer along Chuck Noland (Hanks) loneliness and desperation.

Technically "Cast Away" is almost flawless, like all the movies directed by Robert Zemeckis, and overall the story is very good and realistic. However the movie also has weak spots: Helen Hunt is misused in a very lackluster role to Helen's standards. The first half hour of the movie elapses with few highlights, and the last half hour is kinda disappointing.

At the end of the day, "Cast Away" is a worthy movie. Specially for Tom Hanks' fans or Robert Zemeckis' fans.

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Summary: unwooden Hollywood
Review: Greeting comrads. Whats all can be said. read Yugijouohs' stunning review here in this Amazon customer review section, and you can believe me, he be harsher than I would have been if i talk , but that's repeating, he has said all there is to say! But I'll toss my 2 lira - Helen Hunt is the cats pajamas for ME personally--as opposed to me impersonally haha eddu make funny--and if had known she was not going to appear in Cast Away, I would not have even gone to see it.As mia santa momma said , flattery is no pizza,...but I will smash that rule here. WHENEVER Ms. Hunt is on picture, the movie is EYECATCHING! Again, see Yugijouohs review for more "depth" , I only write to urge you, the last TWENTY minutes of this movie recall the label on minestrone soup cans when i was a boy- Mm Mm GOOD! Probably the best use of digital storage in this crazy filmmaking world. Happily, this is my first positive review on Amazon, and this kind of filmmaking must "be a shining city on the hill" like Ronald Reagan speech! I say, Stay away from bad foreign film, go see Hollywood..(you may learn english)! To say 1 negative thing, the scenery shots ARE boring & Hanks seems a very disengenous man. To believe this movie was hardly "test screened", I love that this type of movie ending is not what world "wants"(?) At most you cant turn your DVD off when Mr Hanks is rescued,the movie would get malto bazillioniano stars I give in the review. This is my best advice.