Movie Review

Rating: 10/10 (20 November 2007)

This movie is about a man who gets stranded on a deserted island. This character is named Chuck, played by Tom Hanks. Chuck works at FedEx flying from country to country making sure that packages get to their destination in the shortest amount of time possible. A couple of days before Christmas he was forced to go on a business trip. As everyone knows that it is always when things are going well that they are bound to go wrong sooner rather than later. Right before he boards the plane he proposes to his girlfriend Kelly, who is played by Helen Hunt. It is on that flight that things go bad. The plane gets trapped in a storm and the pilots are not able to communicate to others through the radio. Somehow after the plane crashing into the ocean, Chuck miraculously survives. Unfortunately the pilots were not as lucky. Eventually while floating on the planes emergency raft, Chuck wakes up to realize that he is on a deserted island in complete loneliness. He then makes a very strong effort to stay alive using every survival skill known to him. He gathers all of the FedEx packages that are washed up onto the beach. At first he plans to keep all of them closed until somebody showed up. Later in the movie he realizes that he might never be found. So he opens up all of the packages except for one and in one of those packages was his new friend: Wilson brand volleyball that he named "Wilson".
This movie does an excellent job with the picture and sound. The writers and editors do a great job in making this movie interesting since it is all about one man stuck on an island. Tom Hanks does a tremendous job playing the role of Chuck. It is especially challenging to play this part since there is barely any dialogue. Because of this the writers and editors has to emphasize other aspects. For example, the sound of nature took the biggest role in this movie. There was not one second where you could not hear the sound of the waves crashing into the sand. In this movie Chuck grew as a person and fought for his life every single day. What kept him motivated was his fiancée Kelly. One of the most brilliant aspects of this movie was Wilson. The volleyball that kept him company, kept him motivated, and eventually became his best friend. Apart from adding more to that story, Wilson also helped bring in more dialogue into the movie. In the end of the movie there is an interesting romantic twist that you would have never imagined. This is all explains why this movie is one of the best movies ever made.