Cast Away

Pros: Brilliant study of a man fighting to survive.
Cons: It should have been longer.

A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet.
-- Lao-tzu

I would like you all to think of the things that you think you need to survive. Is it your makeup? Your money? Even that delicious hamburger that you have...

Pros: Tom Hanks is in it!
Cons: Not enough of Helen Hunt

Since my husband and I were going to have our Christmas with our children on the 26th we decided to take in a movie on Christmas day. We decided we wanted to see Cast Away.

I think we made a wise decision! Cast Away stars...

Pros: Tom Hanks. Nice island.
Cons: Bad ending.

After watching this, I am reminded of the more cheerful Disney version of a similar movie made in the 60s, starring Dick Van Dyke. Like van Dyke before him, Hanks gets caught in a plane crash, washes up on a tiny desert island in the South Pacific &...

Pros: Tom Hanks surviving
Cons: Tom Hanks proselytizing

The title of this film is two words. It should be one, but it's not: its own opening titles say so.

This isn't a matter of illiterate folks stumbling into one another in the long Stygian night of "spelling" (not this time), this...

Pros: Tom Hanks is brilliant, even though the movie isn't. Loved Wilson.
Cons: Too slow and too long. Not realistic, and the ending was horrible

This is actually a bit of an update. It turned out that I put my review under the wrong movie. I stuck it under the wrong Cast Away movie. I noticed that others made the same mistake as I, but I still felt that it should be corrected. Thank you Epinions...

Pros: Realistic Scenes and Hanks portrays intense feelings well.
Cons: Too long and some gaps in time that are unexplained.

After viewing the trailers on this film, I was determined not to see it even though I am Tom Hanks biggest fan. I was convinced this movie would not end the way I thought it should. Therefore, I did not entertain the idea until someone gave me a...

Pros: The "Survivor on an Island" theme is interesting
Cons: Too much Hollywood baloney.

This is not Survivor
by susiewho | Jul 02 '01

I like Tom Hanks, I really, really like him. Unfortunately that didn't make me like this higly touted movie. If I were Tom I'd be pretty embarrassed. But I'm not so he gets richer and I rent...

Pros: Visually gorgeous, solid Tom Hanks performance
Cons: A little too long on the island for me

It's not that often that my husband goes to the movies with my daughter and me, but he likes Tom Hanks, and the idea of surviving both a FedEx jet crash and several years alone on an island was too much for him to pass up. We made a point to see...

Pros: Tom Hanks in the part of his life, Director Robert Zemeckis' finest film -- and that says a lot, Wonderful life lessons,
Cons: The pace and lack of dialogue in parts might turn some off

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...

Pros: A movie about solitude and what it can do to a person.
Cons: Too much Fed-Ex exposure

If you can get through the first 20 minutes, or thereabouts of this movie directed by Robert Zemeckis, you've got it made. The remaining two hours of the movie should go somewhat smoothly.

The movie starts out with Tom Hanks a very type A...

Pros: Epic, different, and enthralling
Cons: Open ending which was somewhat unsatisfying

My girlfriend and I went to see Cast Away a little over a week ago. Since then, when people have asked me what I thought about the movie, my exact response has been, "Well, it's definitely worth seeing." You may have noticed that this...

Pros: Awesome performance by Hanks, and great extras on the DVD
Cons: Movie drags more than a little, and feels like it's 8 hours long

GLEE, it appears that I get to be the first person to write about this movie in this category (there were like 400 reviews for it under the in theaters category, but guess what, it's not in theaters anymore). This will be the first of many many reviews I...

Pros: Chuck went four years without sexual tendancies. Either superman or gay.
Cons: Wilson was cool, until the accident.

I'm finally glad I found this friggin' Cast Away topic. Thanks diverpam! I was trying to post it under Castaway...some generic B movie! LOL

I'd been looking forward to seeing Cast Away for quite a while, in awe of exactly how...

Pros: Unique, Great acting from Hanks, Great direction by Zemeckis
Cons: Cumulative power severly hampered by trailers, unsatisfying ending

Pros: Plane crash scene and the cast.
Cons: Wilson the volleyball.

When we saw the pre-view it looked neat, but not neat enough to go pay for a sitter and go to see in the theatre. So we waited for it to come out on video. Finally Friday July 27 we rented it and I was happy not to have seen it at the theatre. I would've...