Reviews of Cast Away

Cast Away review

Posted : 2 years, 1 month ago on 15 November 2007 04:29 (A review of Cast Away)

Panned by a lot of people, but I love it. Mainly because it has Tom Hanks in it and he can never put a foot wrong. Despite the gratuitous display of FedEx loving at the beginning of the film, the middle and ending sequences are really entertaining to watch. You really feel sorry for Chuck and it makes you think how you would cope in a similar situation.

It shows man adapting to life and reinstigating his primal urges to survive. Seeing Tom Hanks struggle to produce the simplest things that we all take for granted, and then his raw emotion when he succeeds is something I remember about this film. The ending feels so empty and incomplete, but it's a great ending. The look on his face when he flicks the fire lighter and knowing the immense struggle he has gone through to stay alive, only to get back to a world which is completely different from the one he remembers makes you truly feel sorry for him. Chuck is a hero!

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FedEx™ and Wilson™ presents.... Cast Aw

Posted : 2 years, 7 months ago on 1 June 2007 11:35 (A review of Cast Away)

FedEx™ and Wilson™ presents.... Cast Away

Man, i thought that AOL™ movie 'You've Got Mail'™ was the clear 'product placement in movies' champ, but Cast Away beat it by a mile!

I think it could've been a real gem of a film, even a 9 or a 10 in my books, if the friggin' product placement was turned down a down a notch, or two, or OFF completely. It's just so in-your-face that it feels like it bitch slaps you all the way throughout.

For starters, it feels like you're watching a FedEx™ employee pep-talk training video at the start, talking about how fast they ship, how important it is to be on time, and stories about how he tried so hard to get a package delivered, even when his truck broke down. And then you have the FedEx™ plan, the FedEx™ packages all floating in the ocean and washing up on the beach, and he keeps one important FedEx™ package that has Angel Wings on it, as it gives him hope on the desolate island. Really, i think it was put into the story was so can stare at the FedEx™ logo on the box for the entire film, all the way to its conclusion, where even though late, he finally hand delivers that FedEx™ package.

And let's not even mention Wilson™. yeah, it was cute that he started talking to an imaginary friend that was actually a volleyball, but yet its another clear product placement.

Overall, great film, if you can put up with the nausea from the commercial crap that floods it.

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