About as entertaining as watching paint dry

Rating: Null/10 (9 November 2002)

(CONTAINS SPOILERS)
This could've been a good idea for a film but it suffers from an abundance of total silence. For quite a portion of the film, we hear nothing except the waves softly crashing upon the shore as we follow the "adventures" of Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks), a FedEx employee who survives a plane crash and washes ashore on a small island in the South Pacific where he stays for several years before finally being found. However, the viewer may have a hard time staying awake by this time. It would be nice if something, anything crucial would happen during that time on the island as Hanks' portrayal is practically completely reduced to pure pantomime and grunts. It won't ever reach the heights of such strong Hanks vehicles as "Forrest Gump."