Review rated by 11 Ciao members on average: not helpful
In my opinion Tom Hanks is the most overrated actor in the history of Show business. Remember the president in 'The Dead Zone'? When Christopher Walken shakes Martin Sheen's hand and sees global destruction. Well Tom Hanks wants to be president and that image flashes in my mind whenever I see Tom Hanks. You can guess what I thought of Castaway... Forrest Gump showed that he some farily naive and or scary opinions about his country's history and I'd hate to see the fate of the planet in his hands. he's gone downhill ever since bachelor party.. enough said.
very well - Tom Hanks plays a federal express employee obsessed with delivering his packages on time (A similar them to Kevin Costner's The Postman - another work of staggering self-aggrandisement, but we should at least be grateful that no-one erected a giant statue of Hanks in this one). Naturally, the mission he's about to take from Moscow (complete with subtly racist digs about how incompetent Russians are) crashes and Hanks has to survive on a desert island. It's Robinson Crusoe with all the same subliminal messages about the glory of the captitalist spirirt except Robinson Crusoe didn't feature a 90 minute advertisment for fed. ex. In between endless clips of Hanks surviving nobly, his wife worries about him. The best scenes are the crash and storm, but naurally they're eclipsed by the brilliant effects in last year's flawed but at least technically brilliant Perfect Storm. Actually Dawson's Creek did a better strom on a much lower budget. The film seems to be about the triumph of the individual, but the heavy product placement and Hank's weak performance belittle any sense of glory in the human spirit and instead leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
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06.02.2005 19:36
Yep, crock of shit sums up your opinion (or rather lack of opinion) really well.
09.10.2003 01:40
This is a total crock of sh*t, and nothing whatever to do with the movie in question...Ken
28.02.2001 10:36
very well - Tom Hanks plays a federal express employee obsessed with delivering his packages on time (A similar them to Kevin Costner's The Postman - another work of staggering self-aggrandisement, but we should at least be grateful that no-one erected a giant statue of Hanks in this one). Naturally, the mission he's about to take from Moscow (complete with subtly racist digs about how incompetent Russians are) crashes and Hanks has to survive on a desert island. It's Robinson Crusoe with all the same subliminal messages about the glory of the captitalist spirirt except Robinson Crusoe didn't feature a 90 minute advertisment for fed. ex. In between endless clips of Hanks surviving nobly, his wife worries about him. The best scenes are the crash and storm, but naurally they're eclipsed by the brilliant effects in last year's flawed but at least technically brilliant Perfect Storm. Actually Dawson's Creek did a better strom on a much lower budget. The film seems to be about the triumph of the individual, but the heavy product placement and Hank's weak performance belittle any sense of glory in the human spirit and instead leave a bitter taste in the mouth.