A good adventure, a joy

Rating: Null/10 (1 March 2004)

Hey, an enjoyable film even though Im not too much a Hanks fan. Type of story has been done before. That is the loner, survivor, castaway struggling with the elements. Even in a tropical setting. Hanks survives a plane crash, the sole survivor in fact, & is marooned on an island for 4 years. It's a tropical island which means he can sustain himself food wise from the tropical fruits & vegetation as well as with fish. His whole life changes emotionally & literally. After he's rescued by a passing cargo ship he comes home to find his wife re-married with a child. Heartbreaking, but what was she supposed to do with him missing!? Carry on of course. The story seems to be left open for a sequel if you can believe it. We'll see. But the same sort of Robinson Cruesoe situation was done in a silent film called White Shadows in the South Seas(1928).