Fascinating

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2015)

Cast Away is an excellent film. It has a great performance by Tom Hanks, the script is smartly written and the cinematography is great. I believe the movie has two flaws: one, too many characters are introduced in the beginning and in the end which really aren't relevant and the second one is that the early 2000's CGI really doesn't hold up. There's a scene in the movie where you see a whale and it just looks really fake. But these two things are minor, really, and don't really affect the movie experience.
This is also one of the saddest movies in my opinion. There are two moments in the film that get me every time in tears: when Wilson drifts away, and when Hanks goes to Helen Hunt's character's house in the rain near the end of the movie. Hanks' great performance only adds feeling to these moments. The last act of the film usually gets a bad rep, which I really don't understand because I think it is an essential part to the movie and the last scene is the perfect ending, in my opinion.
Cast Away is heartbreaking, touching and often hard to watch. It is also a great film.