A thrilling though mainstream movie/infomercial

Rating: 5/10 (27 March 2006)

Tom Hanks has a hell of a lot more talent than do I.He is not a cult member of Mormonism, since he only followed it in childhood. No,really. He is NOT a clone of the LDS church. Really. I really mean to assert that fact. He is in NO way an LDS operative in the film world. He just happened to stroll through the Mormon church, on his way to stardom. Let it be known that he has NO actual connection with the Mormon church. He is a quiet, less-demonstrative actor, who has a gift for understatement and beauty. Helen Hunt is a purely beautiful womanly woman. She gets to play The Girlfriend. Snore snore snore snore snore. Hanks embarks on an adventure that rips their beautiful high-toned suburban and corporate all-encompassing little capsular life into flotsam and jetsam, not necessarily in that order. Love rent asunder is always a Great Crime. I actually love the little infomercial for FedEx that permeates this movie, for I love the business of small business, grown into big business-the romance of it. Tom Hanks has two loves, Helen, and the quote-cult-unquote of FedEx. Hanks lives inside the huge global beautiful IDEA known as FedEx. I can so dig this feeling my brothers. A fake cult like Scientology just bleeds the life and time in your life-out of you. A business, like FedEx, like Branson's Virgin Enterprises, like Whole Foods, however, gives you life- as it actually PRODUCES something of value for the world. Apple Computers produces stuff people like-or so I am told. It is in some ways a "cult". That being said, Hanks is torn from these twin loves and somehow survives. He survives the loss yet is lost for all time, if not for a fortunate accident. His real loss is not fully realized until he returns to Earth (Tennessee), and then, is Cast Away. His life after all was just a roll of the die, cast.