Little lacking criticism of modern life

Rating: 7/10 (11 May 2005)

Man alone in in a deserted island. Robinson Crusoe springs in mind, when watching this movie, it's just modernized version from it. And Friday is replaced with a volleyball.
In the end whole movie is hanging in the shoulders of one man, Tom Hanks. And he is good, he actually shows very well in this movie why he is considered to be great actor; he's as believable as anyone can be as a marooned man. He talks to his imaginary friend, Wilson the Volleyball, he creates fire and utensils to do fishing. He loses weight and gains more wisdom in survival.
But, it all is a little bit of boring, he is there alone. It's just a one man, trying to fill the whole film with his isolated survival. Of course he gets out from the island and his readjustment to society is quickly recorded, but it isn't given much of thought. He just visits his ex-girlfriend (Helen hunt) and the he continues his living, trying to figure out which way he want's to take with his life.
As a movie everyone must have known how risky it was. It's not filled with action or sexy women. It depends on it's critical elements towards todays electronic dependant society: less can be more, we need a human touch. As for now "Cast Away" is too long, Robert Zemeckis has left some unnecessarily long sequences in, but over all it is a nice little reminder for us all.
And it doesn't even have sappy Hollywood ending.