Cast Away - Movie Review

Rating: 10/10 (10 January 2020)

Cast Away is an incredibly beautiful film, boasting one of the best performance's that Tom Hanks has ever given us. The majority of the film takes place on The Island, and the whole film could have fallen flat if Hanks hadn't been believable in his role.
It's really difficult to talk about Cast Away without delving into spoilers. The film is almost twenty years old, but I still don't want to risk ruining it for anyone who might not have seen this masterpiece yet. This means that I can't talk about my favourite scene in the film. It's towards the end, and if you've seen the film then I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.
Cast Away is riveting, emotional, full of depth, and has a beautiful musical score to accompany it.
I have one extremely minor nitpick to do with the script and Chuck's behaviour after he's been on The Island for four years. He doesn't seem to be as crazy as he was when he first got to The Island, and I would have expected him to be borderline delusional after spending all of that time alone.
But this is one very minor flaw in an otherwise breathtaking movie. It even got us to care about the relationship between a human and a ball (Wilson).
Robert Zemeckis hasn't directed anything on this level for a while, but between Cast Away, Back to the Future, and Forrest Gump, Zemeckis has created some of my all-time favourite films and I will be forever in his debt for that.
SCORE: 96%