It's mournful and troubling in a way that goes beyond ordinary movie manipulation. "Cast Away" is a sad movie of the sort that Hollywood almost never makes: not three-hankie sad, not "go have yourself a good cry" sad, but the kind of thing that, if you let it in deep enough, can send a shudder to your very soul. He works not in tides of feeling but in tide pools, and their stillness is devastating. Hanks has scaled everything back - every potentially overwrought expression or gesture, every bubble pocket of emotion that might normally be blown up large - to forge a gossamer-tough bond of intimacy with his audience that few actors have the skill or subtlety to achieve. But there's no way to foresee what Hanks, an astonishingly gifted performer who in recent years has taken nothing but big-ticket, overblown prestige roles, has done with this part. Anyone who has seen the trailer knows that Hanks' character survives his desert-island stint and comes back to civilization. "Cast Away" is about triumph over adversity, but only in the roughest sense. Any sane person who has seen a movie in the past 10 years - or at any point in his or her life - would be justified in thinking it's probably an uplifting movie about triumph over adversity, the indomitable human spirit and other such nonsense.īut then, aside from the fact that we should all know better than to make judgments about movies based on trailers and ad campaigns, one of the great pleasures of moviegoing is being surprised. And how exactly do you market it? That may be why the trailers and pre-release hype for Robert Zemeckis' "Cast Away" made it look so frightfully inspirational and, frankly, dismissable: Tom Hanks gets marooned on a small tropical island, the sole survivor of a plane crash. So, I hope you watch the film, and I hope that you enjoy it.Melancholy will never be a trend in movies - it's not the sort of thing that packs theaters. So, if that is the case, then you are off the hook. Although.if you aren't a fan of Tom Hanks, then you might have some trouble with this film because a great deal of the film is him alone on an island. There aren't a great many films that I would say this, but this one I would. This is one of the few films that I strongly recommend you watch. There is also a good deal of comedy in the film, and it is done very well. Helen Hunt also pulls off a very nice performance. As much as I liked Russell Crow in "Gladiator", I firmly believe that Tom Hanks deserved it more (although that would be his third Oscar). Also, not many actors have changed their physical appearance like Tom Hanks did for this film, I truly applaud him for his work.
You really can feel all of his emotions while he's stuck on the island. Tom Hanks pulls off another great performance, as usual. The rest of the cast was good, but their roles were very minor.
The acting is very good, although, there's only 2 real sources of acting in this film, Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt. This seems to be a trademark of Robert Zemeckis (case and point, "Forrest Gump").
The scenery is absolutely breath taking, the special effects are so well done that you don't even realize that there are special effects present. But, all in all, I've watched the film enough times now that I can say "I love this film!!!" When I really stop and think about it, the film is brilliantly executed. I am a huge Robert Zemeckis fan, so maybe my expectations were slightly skewed at first. And just got better with each additional viewing. I must say that this film was MUCH better the second time around. I mean, I certainly enjoyed it, but I just wasn't too sure of how I felt about the film as a whole. I'll be honest, the first time I saw this film, I wasn't too sure if I liked it.
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