Hanks towers as a near naked, near biblical man. Zemeckis tells his story -- the screenplay is by William Broyles -- with a control magnificent in what isn't shown as much as in what is.Read Full Review »
88
USA Today: Susan Wloszczyna
Just be glad that Hanks and Zemeckis toiled mightily to pull off at least two-thirds of a remarkable achievement.Read Full Review »
It's mournful and troubling in a way that goes beyond ordinary movie manipulation. It burns clean.Read Full Review »
80
Washington Post: Desson Thomson
If there's anyone who can make this ordeal -- and when you're plumb out of characters, it can be an ordeal -- tolerable, and even entertaining, it's Hanks.Read Full Review »
80
The New York Times: Stephen Holden
At its best, Cast Away, like "Titanic," awes us with its sheer oceanic sweep and its cosmic apprehension of human insignificance.Read Full Review »
75
Boston Globe: Jay Carr
The film's most remarkable achievement, in this culture of clamor, simply may be its decision to keep the volume down, drawing us in as opposed to pummeling us, as most films do.Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
Here is a strong and simple story surrounded by needless complications, and flawed by a last act that first disappoints us and then ends on a note of forced whimsy.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: J. Hoberman
While "Robinson Crusoe" was a paean to the practical middle-class virtues that allowed its industrious hero (and the nation he represents) to re-create civilization out of nothingness, Cast Away is a far less triumphalist peek into the nothingness at the heart of civilization.Read Full Review »
70
Time: Richard Corliss
The 80 minutes it spends on the atoll alone with Hanks make for engrossing storytelling. The film is less sure-footed back in civilization.Read Full Review »
Hotmail
