A good movie but...

Rating: 6/10 (24 February 2001)

I agree with many of the other comments that the product placement in the movie was a little hard to take and detracted from the movie. In many ways they hurt the film's artistic integrity and credibility as a serious drama. How can you take the film seriously when it so blatantly resembles a FedEx propaganda film. Were these real Hollywood writers who wrote this movie? Is anyone totally certain that the writers weren't actually marketing executives from Federal Express? My belief is that the writer was a real Hollywood writer who happens to hold real shares of Federal Express.
To sum it up, Cast Away, a good movie with good acting and a good story, is nearly ruined by the fact that it plays like a long commercial for Federal Express. After about two hours of having the FedEx logo pounded into your head, you just get fed up.