Cast Away

Pros: Great Acting, story
Cons: Sometimes slow

I knew two things walking into this movie, that it had great Oscar buzz, and that Tom Hanks had to physically prepare to make this movie. That to me made Cast Away a must see for me. I remember seeing Tom on various television talk shows in...

Pros: Dramatic and engrossing. Tom Hanks does it again
Cons: Tom Hanks alone on an island for most of the movie may not excite many. And how seriously can you take a man who talks to a ball!?

Why do we survive? What is it that keeps us from simply drowning in a car that has accidentally plunged into a canal? Why do we try to live when we know the odds or against us? We always complain how horrible life is and how we wish we were free of it's...

Pros: fine acting by Hanks
Cons: too much time is devoted to time that Hanks spends doing nothing

And if you think that you can watch Tom Hanks, for an hour, with no supporting cast, then this is a film for YOU.

This is a film with no in-betweens: you will either love it, or hate it. As for me, I did not like it.

Tom Hanks...

Pros: storm, plane going down, Hank's role and of course, Wilson
Cons: Helen Hunt's character

Cast Away
Starring: Tom Hanks
Helen Hunt


If you see only one movie this year, I would recommend Cast Away, a strong and powerful movie that will leave you gasping for air.

I must admit that I was not...

Pros: Amazingly realistic in many ways, superb acting, great plot
Cons: Some may not like the ending

Especially if he was your only friend and had spent years with you on a deserted island. It would be even more traumatic if he always had a smile to give you since it was permanently painted in blood and an attractive hairstyle fashioned from palm...

Pros: it didn't end like the trailer made it seem like it would end
Cons: that sucky sucky sucky trailer

About ten years ago, during a hiatus from university, I joined a strange collection of people who were traveling to the Bahamas for college credit. My friend Jane asked me along, and although I couldn't use the credit (wrong university, wrong subject),...

Pros: Beautiful technical filmmaking
Cons: Pass The Air Sickness Bag

Talented artists often are at their best when fighting against their predilections. The best creative solutions are rarely the first ones thought of, and bypassing one's immediate impulse is often an excellent way of finding a more meaningful. enriching...

Pros: Great acting by Tom Hanks, and funny in parts
Cons: Slow in some parts

I went to go see Cast Away at the theater by my house the other night with my girlfriend. I had not heard many great things about this movie, so needless to say I was not expecting too much of this film. Everyone I talked with told me that...

Pros: Everything you needed to know about shipwreck movies but were afraid to ask...
Cons: See above...

Tom Hanks has become the Jimmy Stewart of our time. Not that Jimmy spent any undue time plying his trade in comedy mills on his way to legendary fame. It's just that both actors struck paydirt by being Joe Blow, an average nerd with a soft heart. It's...

Pros: Superbly written and directed film with a masterful performance by Tom Hanks
Cons: it's more of a meditation than an "adventure"...therefore, it drags a bit

Along with a sure-fire Oscar nomination, Tom Hanks gets my vote for this year's REAL "Survivor." In this contemporary Robinson Crusoe tale, Hanks plays a busy FedEx executive who waves good-bye to his girl-friend, Helen Hunt, on Christmas...

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: Beautifully filmed; Tom Hanks puts in a fine performance
Cons: Ignores too many questions

Richard Hatch and company have nothing on Chuck Noland, Tom Hanks’ character in Cast Away, the film that reunites Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis for the first time since Forrest Gump, a film I rank among the best of all time....

Pros: Excellent physical performance by Hanks.
Cons: Long, Tiresome, and boring toward the end.

Cast Away was a film that received a great deal of hype before it's official release. A film starring Tom Hanks and directed by Robert Zemeckis probably deserved all of that hype. Unfortunately it is hard for a film to live up to...

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...

Pros: Great Adventure
Cons: Leaves you wondering

Last weekend my Husband and I went to see this movie. Anything Tom Hanks is in is GREAT. He has become one of my favorite Actors. He can play any part and become that person.

In this movie he is in a management position with Federal...