Cast Away

Pros: Great camera work, great performance by Hanks
Cons: Rather anti-climatic

Suchure is when one is totally engaged in a film. You become a part of the film, engrossed in the filmic world. Robert Zemeckis had me, reeled me in, from the first frame, all the way until the anti-climax. That's when something went quite array and I...

Pros: Great Visuals
Cons: Predictable Plot

Although Tom Hanks does a very good acting job in Cast Away, the film is something very short of what we've come to expect out of the Academy Award winner. In fact, the film's content was more like Joe versus the Volcano than it was Forrest Gump or...

Pros: provocative, inspiring, motivating
Cons: none...

Cast Away... the movie title itself suggests the theme of the movie.

Survival.

It is probably one of the most remarkable films for the year 2001. I predict Tom Hanks will be nominated an oscar for this incredible film.

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Pros: Fine for Tom Hanks fans
Cons: Not enough substance; lame ending

I went to see this movie because, like everyone else, I'm a big fan of Tom Hanks' work. Also, the trailer looked pretty good. :-)

I found the movie to be interesting but very flawed. I won't go into a synopsis of the movie. There are lots of...

Pros: great minimalist expression of isolation, despair and survival
Cons: "Tom Hanks" means never having to say "I'm so sorry...."

In the wake of the Oprah Age of the 80's and '90s, movies have turned unnecessarily maudlin. In the tradition of the "chick flick", secrets are shared, loves are lost, learning occurs, metaphors abound and the string section is turned way, way...

Pros: Tom Hanks, restraint
Cons: Helen Hunt, the love story

If you think a flight-phobic who had to leave Cast Away during the crash scene is not qualified to review the movie, don’t read any further. Check out what the FAA has to say about it and take their recommendation.

Movies are hyped before...

Pros: interesting, great effects
Cons: a little boring second time around

It all begins with one man, his girlfriend, Kelly (played by Helen Hunt) and his high paying job, as the inspector of FedEx stations all around the world. It was but a few days before christmas where Chuck Noland gets a call. He must travel to...

Pros: Tom Hanks, humorous, volleyball
Cons: slow at times, weak ending

See Tom stress about time, see Tom fly, see Tom crash, see Tom swim. If you like Tom Hanks, than this is a must see movie for you. Unfortunately the movie trailer gives away a bit too much about this movie, like all of it! Tom Hanks stars as a VIP for...

Pros: The Whale
Cons: Helen Hunt loses her accent!

Bad things sometimes happens to good people is what kept going through my mind when Mother Earth/Mother nature was having one of her 'moods' as she pits nobody's fool/ace troubleshooter on "Gilligan's Island". Luckily for Chuck Noland (Tom...

Pros: Endearing role for Tom Hanks
Cons: Looks too much like Oscar bait instead of a movie

The theme of Cast Away is the control that we exert in this modern life. Or rather it is the loss of it. This theme is vocalised in one of the last scenes as the protagonist, Chuck Noland, reminisces over his time as a cast away and admits to a colleague...

Pros: Great story, great performance
Cons: none

Even though we are meant to think Cast Away is survival story, it is truly a love story, pure and simple. Tom Hanks' character is stranded on a desolate island after his flight crashes into the Pacific just after Christmas. Once he washes up on the...

Pros: intense camera work on a talented actor
Cons: you might need to take a bathroom break in the middle cuz of all that water

As much as I love Tom Hanks' body of work, I was somewhat wary about sitting through two hours of him trying to start a fire, which is what the previews suggested to me. But, while over half of the two hour-fifteen minute film showed Hanks all by his...

Pros: A mix of emotions that makes a great movie
Cons: They never tell you whats in the box!

In this movie Tom Hanks gives another stellar performance! He is the lone survivor of a Fed-Ex plane crash and ends up on a deserted island. He remains on the island for almost five years. In the beginning, he does the classic waiting for a search team...

Pros: great acting and believability
Cons: drags in a few places

I went to see this movie for two reasons; first I had yet to see a Hanks movie I didn't like enormously and I had always liked the "stranded on a desert island" plot line. Sad to say I was a little disappointed with _Cast_Away_ and while I see...

Pros: Extremely realistic, good acting, great directing
Cons: Shameless tell-all ad campaign!!! Helen Hunt's Memphis accent

Just a few hours before writing this opinion, I saw Cast Away. I thought it would be terrible. I stand corrected. I thought the acting was superb. I don't know how it was possible, but a volleyball pulled off a great job as a supporting actor. It...