Cast Away

Pros: Tom Hanks.
Cons: Maybe a little to much of Tom Hanks on his own maybe ??

As a Tom Hanks fan I of course strolled into the local blockbuster to rent Cast Away. I a little cautious, as I am not used to watching a movie with such a length of time with just one thespian guiding me along, but it is Hanks after all so I picked ...

Pros: Tom Hanks, three powerful sequences, setting
Cons: It is long, and mostly sad.

For any movie role an actor accepts, he or she is taking a gamble, but there is usually a whole cast with whom the credit, or blame, can be shared. In some movies, like Father Goose (Cary Grant and Leslie Caron) or Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison ...

Pros: Hanks' terrific performance, Wilson, concept
Cons: some really grueling injury scenes on the island - and that awful tooth extraction...

My lost-on-an-island movie celebration continued this week when I re-watched Cast Away, the beautiful Rob ert Zemeckis / Alan Silvestri / Tom Hanks reunion film about a FedEx executive who "lives and dies by the ...

Pros: Very stark and believable. Exellent acting.
Cons: Plot a little thin.

After watching Will Smith’s lonely portrayal of the ‘last man on earth’ in I am Legend, I decided to dig through my small collection of DVDs and find Castaway. The similarities between the two enticed me to watch Castaway again, perhaps with a ...

Pros: Interesting story; outstanding performance by Hanks; some funny and dramatic moments.
Cons: Predictable; borders on melodrama at times.

There have been a lot of movies, books and TV shows about people being stranded on a desert island. In most cases the formula is used for comedy or adventure, rarely drama. That's what separates "Cast Away" from all the other stories of the genre, ...

Pros: Devoted actors, heart moving scenes, triumph of will
Cons: needed some more happy moments

Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks, is a story that follows the struggle of one man, who’s whole life changes when he is stranded on a desert island. The movie starts just before Christmas time, giving the viewer an inside view of the daily life of Tom ...

Pros: Hanks. Story.
Cons: CGI. Lack of personal growth on island for Hanks

In this contemporary re-reading of Robinson Crusoe, Tom Hanks stars as Chuck Noland, a Federal Express trouble shooter who devotes more of his free time to solving problems at work, rather than his own dilemmas at home with his neglected ...

Pros: Awesome Idea For a Movie;Brillant effects;Kickin Plot!
Cons: The Behind the scenes shows a secret!

I rented this movie at Hastings on one lonely night as I knew nothing about this film, just that fabulous Tom Hanks was apart of it! As soon as I popped this movie in I was already starting to enjoy it. It showed the life of Chuck and his relations ...

Pros: scenery, Hanks
Cons: old man gets marooned on an island story again

PLOT The movie starts by giving us a 'day in the life' of a FedEx package. We then soon meet Chuck Noland ( Tom Hanks ), who is shown to have a lot of respect and dependability on the FedEx system. We see him giving a speech about time ...

Pros: Beautiful movie. A lot to think about when you watch it. Tom Hanks.
Cons: A little bit of a downer.

In my mind, Castaway has to be one of the best movies of the year, and possibly the decade. Also, in my mind, it's one of the most perfect movies Hollywood has put out in years. It reminds me of older movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Peter Brook's ...

Pros: Action packed start to get you gripped and a moving storyline to keep you watching.
Cons: none watch for yourself

Although Castaway has been out for quite a while now, it's one of the films I missed and had always wanted to catch up on, having read loads of reviews and seen the adverts for it when it first came out. I finally got the chance to see it. Boy did it ...

Pros: Tom Hanks is pretty good, good SFX, unconventional ending
Cons: You can have too much of Tom Hanks... nothing really exceptional about the film

Robinson Crusoe version 4,503… I saw this after reading somewhat mixed reviews, though the consensus seemed to be that it was good. With the basic plot being a man (Chuck, played by Tom Hanks) stranded on a desert island and having to ...

Pros: everything
Cons: a few scenes that might make you wince

 Chuck Noland is a FedEx executive whose life is ruled by the clock. However, when his plan ...

Pros: Acting just doesn't get much better.
Cons: None

It is rare to see acting of this caliber. Tom Hanks has become such a great actor over the ye ...

Pros: Brilliant acting, direction, and a great score grab and keep you in the story.
Cons: Ending is ambiguous, makes you want something to happen that just can't.

It seems to me that when director Robert Zemeckis teams up with actor Tom Hanks, the end result is gold. First it was the excellent film "Forrest Gump", and now the two are back together in "Cast Away", and the result is exactly the same. The combined...