A Three Act Play Where One Act Would Have Sufficed

Rating: 6/10 (29 December 2000)

There is one positive in this movie: It solidifies Tom Hanks as not only one of America's most beloved actors, but also one of the best. There is a sequence in the middle of the movie where Hanks begins to figure out exactly how far away from everyone and how large the search area for his crash is that is simply heartbreaking. Hanks stunning acting on the island, however, is muted by the opening where he is surrounded by cardboard cutouts of stock characters, the brilliant island footage, and then he returns right back into cardboard cutouts and forced situations. This movie is worth seeing, worth thinking about for a moment, and that is about all....