Saw it, was okay, wanted to FedEx something.

Rating: Null/10 (17 January 2001)

*Some possible spoilers here, but none that haven't been given away so far.*
How come no-one here so far has mentioned the sheer amount of product placement in this film? It goes beyond the point of silliness (like the Nokia phones on Charlie's Angles) to the point where a FedEx package is the reason for the main character to live.
First thing you see is a FedEx truck. Hank's character works for FedEx. FedEx parcels wash up on his island.
But, maybe, this is a statement. Hanks has given himself totally to this corporate world, even so far as to leave at Christmas to go with a delivery. Maybe his island is his means to escape from this.
Fat chance. FedEx parcels wash up regularly, leaving a corporate brand on a uninhabited island.
But by the time Hanks makes his escape (c'mon, you know he gets back, it's in the damn trailer.) he's left everything behind. His Maglite torch has run out. His clothes are now just unrecognizable shreds. The one parcel he has left unopened has had all the branding washed off it. Maybe that's a metaphor for him? Maybe. So off he goes, a better person... ...until he raises his sail. He's painted a FedEx logo on it.
Damn you Hanks.
I think I'm being to harsh on it. Maybe reading the book No Logo isn't helping.
Maybe this is it's statement. Thanks to his loyalty to the corporation, Hanks looses everything and is left just as alone as he was on that island.
Maybe it is subversive.
Maybe.
(See? I got through a whole review without loads of !!!!!! and no caps. Learn, people, please.)