Notes on the ending (SPOILERS AHOY)

Rating: Null/10 (13 May 2002)

First things first - to that guy from Ireland who claimed Hanks was 'still fat' after four years on the island, i suggest you go get your eyesight checked. He looked very much NOT fat, he looked as a person would look after four years of a coconut/crab/fish diet. If you expected him to look like gandhi, then you're out of your mind - he DID eat out there. If you expected him to look like some track and field athlete, you're again out of your mind - people who don't partake in an excercise program coupled with a balanced diet don't actually look like that, didn't you know?
As to the movie, well made, brilliant acting by Hanks, the first half hour was a bit too long, 20 minutes would have sufficed. As to the ending, I don't buy the 'love of my life' talk. If Chuck was the love of Kelly's life, she could have full well dumped the dentist. People get divorced over issues far more trivial than the love of one's life returning from death. Abandoning one's husband doesn't mean abandoning one's child. And speaking of the child, from the pictures around the house, she looked to be about 3-4 years old. Seems she got pregnant rather hastily after the crash and subsequent shacking up with Chris Noth. Okay, would be wholly plausible, but Zemeckis directs, and Hunt acts in a way to make the character a person for whom Hanks WAS the love of her life, so she just lets it go 'for the children'?