Excellent production and splendid settings. Good performance.

Rating: 8/10 (13 February 2001)

The story line was not hard to follow and was very interesting, but it is very hard to stuff any more since it was already 3 hours long. The viewer's imagination was needed to fill in the rest of the sage.
This film was very hard to work on the outdoor sets. The realities of island living are brutal and difficult to portray. Much of the hardships were left out of the film. Anyone who watched Gilligan's Island would have thought otherwise.
Tom Hanks carried the film on his back and did much better than expected. I agree with most other comments about desiring to see more scenes about Chuck Nolans' integration back into society. I expected more makeup work to display a variety of skin diseases, rashes, infections and at least a skin peeling sunburn! The island scenes captured his injuries well and helped the audience with much of the painful side of the experience, especially the bad tooth scene in the cave. The film needed more pain! It was too sterile after the rescue.