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Cast Away (2000)
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Cast Away is a good movie that wants to be much better. While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final act. It's three movies in one, beginning when punctuality-obsessed Federal Express systems engineer Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) departs on Christmas Eve to escort an ill-fated flight of FedEx packages. Following a mid-Pacific plane crash, movie...
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Cast Away Movie Review by Tim  (5/1/2007) |
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Do you ever watch a film and not like it the first time you saw it? Then you go back and watch it either because you want to try and give it another chance or more likely there is just nothing better on TV at the time and you end up thinking its a lot better the second time around? Well Cast Away was like this for me.
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(complete Cast Away review by Tim)
| Cast Away Movie Review by Zara (3/14/2007) |
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First things first, did anyone besides me cringe when Hanks uses the skate blade to knock out his infected tooth? Jesus, I think that gave me nightmares for months.
The focus of this movie is on Hanks. There is some filler at the beginning and the ending, but the movie essentially revolves around him and his trusty...
(complete Cast Away review by Zara)
| Cast Away Movie Review by Tammy (10/13/2007) |
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While director Robert Zemeckis's earlier film Contact achieved a kind of mainstream spiritual significance, Cast Away falls just short of that goal. That may explain why the film's most emotionally powerful scene involves the loss of an inanimate object, even as it presents a heart-rending dilemma in its very human final...
(complete Cast Away review by Tammy)
| Cast Away Movie Review by ellen (12/31/2006) |
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this was a really good movie. tom pulled this off with flying colors. it was a sort of love story with a hint of drama and comedy. tom gained alot of weight for this movie, then nearly dropped down to nothing to seem realistic......and it sure did. he was stranded on this island and day by day you could see him dwindle...
(complete Cast Away review by ellen)
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