what Gilligan forgot to tell us

Rating: 7/10 (10 April 2006)

Maybe we wonder how many movies and/or TV shows about people stranded on uncharted islands there can be. "Cast Away" of course portrays Fed Ex employee Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) getting stuck on a Pacific island after a plane crash and having to use his own ingenuity to survive, even after he ends up looking like a cross between a beggar and Moses. I personally think that they could have just left it at that and not had any of the stuff about his relationships with people. But Wilson made an interesting character. Of course, a particularly unpleasant scene portrays his dental work. Overall, I guess that there's not much here that we haven't seen, but Hanks's performance keeps everything afloat, especially in the fire scene.
And I guess that Gilligan did forget to tell us about the coconuts.