Couldn't wait for it to get over...

Rating: 5/10 (24 December 2000)

I'm afraid that this movie was a big disappointment for me. Maybe because I had such high hopes. The most entertaining part of this movie was the first 45 minutes or so leading up to and including the plane wreck. The island scenes were necessary to the plot but unnecessarily drawn WAY WAY out. And then finally, the ending was anti-climactic and almost predictable. At the theatre I watched this movie, the film broke half way through, which was a welcome pause to the almost pointless island survival scenes. The relationship between the characters played by Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt could have been more deeply explored so that by the end of the movie, I could have cared whether they got back together or not. I rated this movie a 5, and that's being generous...