No ship, Sherlock!

Rating: Null/10 (25 April 2001)

Had mixed expectations about this one. Some reviews had compared it to Daniel Defoe's epic Robinson Crusoe. Others had said it was even more boring. In the end, it wasn't actually too bad although like Titanic, the opening scenes and the end were deadly dull  the end especially. Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt (whose names incidentally are both cockney rhyming slang) were both fine, Hanks particularly effective in the romantic attachment he developed towards a ball named Wilson.'Some have suggested the ball should be given as Best Supporting Actornomination for its inscrutable performance. The plane crash was particularly scary. Hanks survived, but didn't even get a chance to choose a selection of songs, a book or a luxury before being washed up on the island.
Spoilers ahead: The ending was truly abyssmal. Hanks' relationship with Hunt had to be resolved in some way but the film seemed to completely run out of any inspiration once he came home (perhaps his plane home should have crashed as well!) Alternative ending: Hanks' apartment: The party over, Hanks  tired and thin contemplates his new life alone. The doorbell rings. Irritated, Hanks goes to answer it. He looks around: no one is there  or is there? Wilson the ball sits on the doorstep. He is wearing sun glasses and a sombrero and has a bouquet of flowers lying in front of him. Hanks smiles a mysterious smile and winks at the camera.