Cast Away

Pros: Tom Hanks gives a knockout performance.
Cons: The trailers have already given away too much of the story.

(Dir: Robert Zemeckis, Starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Nick Searcy, Chris Noth, Lari White, Valerie Wildman, Viveka Davis, and Lauren Birkell)

Robert Zemeckis has made a name for himself wowing the public at large with films that can enthuse...

Pros: great plot, Tom Hanks does a fantastic job of portraying the emotions of being trapped on a deserted island
Cons: advances time very quickly, doesn't tie up all plot details by end

I did not think that this movie was going to be good. Everyone that ever is in or produces a show or movie about being stranded on an island always have a good ending, and the strandee, always has a good time being away from civilization. This movie...

Pros: Tom Hanks, an interesting beginning
Cons: Interest sours, a total wipe out.

I'm what you could consider a terrible movie buff. Being the first to hit Blockbuster whenever a new movie is released, I'm usually the one to take the first movie off the shelf.

Renting Cast Away was on my "to watch list" since I saw the...

Pros: realistic, no nudity, great actor for the lead
Cons: not much development after the rescue leaves one feeling lost

My husband and I went to see this movie the night that it opened in our town. We had seen all the previews and desperately wanted to see it on the big screen instead of waiting for it to come out on video to rent.

The movie told of a man who...

Pros: Cast of Actors, Plot, Emphasizes the physical and emotional struggles
Cons: None really...except some people may not appreciate the ending

Pros: Plot
Cons: Length of movie

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fall out of the sky and the only one that survived. On top of that you spend almost 5 years stranded on an island that is the middle of no where.
Well the new film that stars Tom Hanks, Cast Away is...

Pros: WILSON: A HAMMY ACTOR'S DREAM CO-STAR
Cons: HELEN HUNT IN EVERY MOVIE:IT'S NOT JUST A GOOD IDEA--IT'S THE LAW!

Boy, we human-types sure do love our stranded-on-a-deserted-island stories, don't we? From Robinson Crusoe to the Swiss Family Robinson (Were they related? And is Robinson really a Swiss name?) From the giddy antics of the loveable Lord of the Flies to...

Pros: The movie
Cons: The End

I came away dissatisfied -- and that's a GOOD thing!

I wouldn't normally bother to write a review of a film that 93 other people have already reviewed -- especially when it has so many high ratings and so few low ones. But in the sampling of...

Pros: Something to do, take a date.
Cons: Leave your brain at the door.

At first, I'll admit I was excited about this one. A decent actor, good plot idea, hell I was sold. Robert Zemeckis (same director as Back to the Future, I think) now owes me two hours of my life back.

I can't imagine why people are so ga-ga...

Pros: Tom Hanks has a brillian performance!
Cons: none

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Castaway is this years most anticipated movie, starring the Emmy Award winning Tom Hanks. Its premise is simple and straightforward. Tom Hanks plays the character of Chuck Noland a Fed-Ex...

Pros: Excellent acting, beautiful scenery, and great plane crash
Cons: The ending --too bad things didn't work out

You know a movie is good when there is this feeling that you can walk out of the movie theater, and realize inside, that you knew what the movie was about. If you could bare down the movie to the minimum, you found the core, the moral or aspect of...

Pros: Awesome story, great acting by Tom Hanks
Cons: might be a little scary for younger children

____I'm a pretty big Tom Hanks fan; in fact I don't think I can think of a movie of his that I don't like. So I went into the theatre with some pretty high expectations. In fact the only bad thing about my cinematic experience this evening was paying...

Pros: Hanks and the survivor island scenes
Cons: The ending was quite rushed

This is a film to think about after you've left the theatre. This is Not a sentimental tearjerker (although I do love those movies). In fact, I only got teary eyed one time during this flick (see below). I commend the director for not beating the...

Pros: Tom Hanks! Helen Hunt. Good concept.
Cons: Helen Hunt doesn't live up to her potential. Terrible ending.

Frankly, I saw this movie only because of the hype it received upon release. I ended up viewing it on Pay-per-view on my big screen TV. Great scenery - bad script.

This movie makes it entirely on the merits of Tom himself. He's in a league of...

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It's Christmas time, and that means a lot of big films have opened - or are going to open - soon. One of the biggest (and most anticipated) will undoubtedly be Tom Hanks' latest masterpiece Cast Away. I knew from the moment I saw the trailer for this...