Wasted

Rating: 5/10 (19 January 2001)

I was hoping that this would be less than Hollywood as it's usual sentimental. However the title is Cast Away rather than Castaway - thus indicating a sentimental ending before the movie begins.
There were efforts made to explore the psychology of aloneness and hopelessness of the desert island outcast. But it pulled back to the superficial - fire, hunting, physical sickness, imaginary friend.
Thankfully it all felt real enough and it showed plenty of determination and despair - but it failed to really get into the traumatised mind of someone is that position.
I was hoping that: 1. reality prevails and our protagonist dies (he could have just dived off one of those cliffs - once his hanging test had failed),....and in the event that the does get rescued.. 2. that he goes through that sort of transformation so aptly portrayed by Jeff Bridges in Fearless.
No such luck.
A reasonable film - but one easily forgotten.