SuperMan Get's Marooned!

Rating: Null/10 (17 February 2007)

As much as I love Tom Hanks, I don't like it when a movie expects me to suspend belief to the point of absurdity, as this film does. Tom Hanks plays Chuck Noland....a FedEx super employee( you know the type as always portrayed in movies) who's plane crashes in a storm, leaving him marooned on a deserted island. What makes this film so absurd, is that Chuck Noland seems to possess near expert survival skills. He knows the proper wood to use to try and start a fire, he knows how to make rope, and he manages to salvage everything else he needs to survive from the FedEx packages that float to his island, from the crashed plane. He can't catch fish, so he finds a dress with netting on it to use as a fishing net. He can't open his coconuts, so of course, he finds someones birthday gift ice skates! He manages to fix his own impacted tooth, and he has somehow acquired the knowledge to build the perfect raft! But he can't fight through the vicious current, and the unrelenting incoming tide. What he needs is a sail for his raft......BINGO....a piece of plastic(in the form of a sail no less) floats up onto his island as well, and he manages to get out to sea, with the beloved volley ball he befriended, and mourns when it floats away forever! Thats the other absurdity of the film........he seems to have gone crazy after 3 years on the island, and somehow gets cured out of thin air. He of course loses his girlfriend who is now married to another guy. When he goes to visit her after being rescued, she calls him the love of her life, and claims she knew he was alive all along, which makes about as much sense as the rest of this movie, because nothing says you are the love of my life, like marrying another guy!!! It's just my opinion, but it would have been much more true to life, if old Chuck had ended up not knowing how to do anything to survive, like most normal people, and had just starved to death, like most normal people would have!