Review of Cast Away (2000) by Brett E — 08 Apr 2016

My third favorite Tom Hanks movie, behind Apollo 13 and Forrest Gump. It's strange to see a movie with so little dialogue, and almost no music, and yet still be this good. Some of Tom Hanks' best acting for sure. It's pretty impressive if you can get an audience to care so much about a volleyball, as if it was a real person, but that's something only Tom Hanks could do. Some of the effects are dated by today's standards, but they were done with good lighting/weather effects and cinematography, that the problems with them are hard to spot, so that's only a minor issue with the movie. And perhaps it was the transfer on the Blu-ray, but it seemed like the film quality didn't hold up to current HD standards very well either, whereas other movies from around the same time look fine. There were also a few areas where it seemed like the sound mixing could have been better. Other than those things, which are honestly minor complaints, the film feels mostly perfect to me.

Personal Grade: S+.

Technical Score: 94%.