Review of Cast Away (2000) by Kevin M. W — 12 Jul 2015

So Tom Hanks plays a real go-getter who gets stuck on a desert island. Okay. Then what? Well the opening sequences are good, as he learns to feed himself, to survive, but the ultimate rationale for the whole piece is how he handles the idea that he might be there forever, and this Zemeckis decides to keep off camera. Why? I don't know. It simply skips that part. We rejoin our hero as, reenergized, he decides to risk it all to save himself.

But it could've been a better film, an examination of why we choose life (as opposed to life simply choosing us).

I had the feeling Zemeckis kept the core of the piece to himself. Still, it's watchable, if anticlimactic.