Much better than I expected!

Rating: 9/10 (23 May 2015)

I didn't have very high hopes for this movie - boy, how wrong can you be!!! Excellent story and quite believable. Very clever casting of Tom Hanks in the major role - quite possibly, he puts in his finest acting performance of his career. The pace of the movie is excellent. And the time that Tom's character is alone on a small island having to survive is brilliantly portrayed. It was a well thought out story of how somebody might survive. It takes in his darkest moments where he believes the only way out is suicide - and you don't judge him. It makes you start o think what you would do in his circumstances, and I'm sure for most people the option of suicide would cross your mind on more than one occasion. The transition of his life after he does manage to get off the island and get rescued is superbly portrayed. He comes back to a world that is just as lonely even though he's surrounded by people. The closing scene at the crossroads in Texas was just brilliant - the choice of which road to take and how the rest of his life would turn out. If you haven't seen it, then I recommend you do!!