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Advantages: Great film
Disadvantages: Not many

This film stars Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt, although Tom Hanks stars much more prominently. If you don't like Tom Hanks then this film is certainly not for you. In the film Hanks plays Chuck Noland, an executive worker for the FedEx company, travelling on planes from place to place to ensure delivery of all the packages. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what is going to happen! Before the completely predictable plane crash Hanks propose to ... Read review

Advantages: Tom Hanks is pretty good, good SFX, unconventional ending
Disadvantages: You can have too much of Tom Hanks... nothing really exceptional about the film

I saw this after reading somewhat mixed reviews, though the consensus seemed to be that it was good. With the basic plot being a man (Chuck, played by Tom Hanks) stranded on a desert island and having to fight for survival, the real question was: with the subject has been dealt with so many times before, what could they possibly do here that was any different from the myriad films going before it? Well, to its credit, it does manage to be a little ... Read review

Advantages: The end
Disadvantages: The start and middle

...slap me ok!! Like most Castaway films he adapts to living on the island, making tools for cutting and getting used to eating on what he can find. The scenery on the island was good but all through the film I kept waiting for someone else to appear in the film, they didn’t!! I like Tom Hanks but I am afraid that watching him and him alone for about an hour wandering about the island was too much for me. But for the fact I had paid for ... Read review

Advantages: Wilson the football was quite interesting
Disadvantages: Tom was not

Why is this under an action and adventure category? I don't remember any? Forgive the fact this will be a short op, but there's very little to explain really!... The Plot -------- Tom Hanks plays a FedEx employee, who by totally uninteresting circumstances ends up in a plain crash. Uninterestingly he finds himself washed up on an uninteresting island, with no other inhabitants (although i'm sure they would have been uninteresting had there ... Read review

Advantages: Atmospheric, Immersive
Disadvantages: Last bit rushed

I can't remember the last film I watched that I could relate to this well. No, I've never actually spent 4 years stranded on an island with just a volleyball for company, but after watching this I've got a pretty good idea what it would be like. This is a very special film. Some people say its slow and mundane. I admit, it does take a while to get going, but from the minute the plane goes down it grabs you and doesn't let you go. The main ... Read review

Advantages: great acting
Disadvantages: fades once back in civilisation

Castaway is a good film which manages to keep you watching despite there not being much interaction. Tom Hanks gives a performance which is more physical than anything. For most of the film his dialougue is limited and it's all about reaction and what he does for survival. He plays a fed-ex employee who is obsesses with time and quite passionate about his job. He has the devoted girlfriend and a good life. One overnight flight changes that as ... Read review

Advantages: Convincing portrayal of secluded life and personal survival
Disadvantages: None

Strong, visually stunning, absorbing and powerful film that leads you quietly but willingly aside one castaway's personal ordeal of life alone and the difficulties he faced just learning how to live a new solitude life. Tom Hanks has already secured his position as one of Hollwood's leading and most sought after actors, and in Robert Zemeckis's Cast Away (2000) he continues to prove his acting prowess and versatility in a film where he acts alone ... Read review

Advantages: The plot is truely amasing
Disadvantages: Lasts too long

As I viewed the opening credits, I felt a tingle run down my spine, as I knew that this film was going to be excellent, due to the enormous amount of hype surrounding this film for months! Therefore this review will discuss whether the hype has been worthwhile. I saw this film after reading somewhat different opinionated reviews and articles, so I decided to see for myself whether this film was top notch or top drop, however I was fairly confident, ... Read review

Advantages: A fantastic film
Disadvantages: None

This must be one of the best films of all time, that centre’s around human involvement. I’ve heard a few criticisms of this movie that I will address later in the opinion, firstly let me say Tom Hanks puts in a superb performance as the lone Fed Ex worker (Chuck Noland) who through no fault of his own gets washed up on a desert island, after the plane he was on carrying Fed Ex parcels crashes into the sea. Anyway, when he wakes from ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful film with a brilliant actor, plot and and director to match
Disadvantages: People just don't seem to understand it(idiots)

Zemeckis has produced a true beauty with this film, and coming from the side of the director, it has to be said that he is one of the best out there, and this film really shows it. Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland, who is a systems engineer for FedEx, basically he tries to make things more efficient, and we first see him in Russia at Red Square, were we see that his life is ruled by the clock(and that he has a bad tooth), "We live and we die by the ... Read review

Advantages: good actors, wonderful island
Disadvantages: no

Who never dreamed a day to endorse the famous costume of Robinson Crusoe, lost in the beach of a paradisiac island, and who would spend his days to eat, leaned with a coconut, fresh coconuts, to enjoy lobsters roasted with the wood fire, to live humbly of hunting and fishing, to stroll under the palm trees and more not to think of daily worries of modern civilization? At the release of this film, the large majority of the televiewers were expected ... Read review

Advantages: Great effects and story
Disadvantages: Regurgitated Robinson Crusoe

...suggested to me to purchase Castaway on Sky Box Office on Sunday evening, I must admit, I was a little hesitant. Do I want to sit through 2 hours and 30 minutes of a modern Robinson Crusoe? Well, I pressed the magic PURCHASE button and off we went. What a well spent bit of cash it was. Castaway features Tom Hanks as a Business Tycoon in charge of Federal Express, thats right, the company that deliver your mail to far flung destinations. He is ... Read review