Parcel Carrier stars in movie - Tom Hanks supports

Rating: Null/10 (18 November 2002)

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Fred Smith in a movie ? Wow, I haven't seen him since he made me and hundreds of other UK Federal Express employees redundant back in 1992......calling this movie "Cast Away" is surely twisting the knife Fred. Sorry, Im getting political instead of reviewing this movie (or is it a 2hour FredEx advert - it feels like it on occasions).
Chuck is a busy man - he rushes around the world a lot for the FredEx cause. Then one night his plane goes down - the most dramatic part of the movie. Then it all slows down to a virtual standstill as Chuck copes with life as a Cast Away. There is plenty of time to contemplate "now if that was me...." but all of a sudden 4 years have passed. Schmaltzy ending and that's it.

I'll sum it up by saying if you like Tom Hanks you'll get on fine with this movie but if FredEx have ever let you down it will grate.