bad bad ending

Rating: Null/10 (27 January 2001)

MEGASPOILERS ABOUT THE ENDING HERE!
I hate good movies with bad endings... and this one left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Didn't the writer think we would feel really bad if Tom Hanks didn't reunite with his wife? I realise that it's hard to think of an ending with a movie like this, but this movie had the worst movie ending I've seen in a long time. All you see in the last scenes is Tom Hanks' skinny face and then... it stops. Finished. We have no idea of what will happen to this character we've gotten to know. Will he ever be happy again? We'll have to imagine that for ourselves. What a disappointment!
That said, I must say that the movie was worth seeing in a theater. The scenes on the island are very well made and never boring. Actually, the whole movie is never boring. Tom's separation of Wilson had me teary-eyed. The scenes on the island are so extremely well done, in fact, that they single-handedly make this movie better than anything I've seen last year. They are scary, funny, exciting, and heart-breaking. Of course, the plane crash scene must also be mentioned, which can only be described as masterful action filmmaking. This is one of the best action scenes I've ever seen. If the whole movie would've been as good as the first, er... 100 minutes, I would've given it a 10. It's such a shame that it had such a lousy ending. That brings it as much as 3 points down.
7 out of 10.