A two hour FedEx trailer

Rating: 3/10 (1 April 2002)

Contains spoilers
With this movie, Robert Zemeckis continues his tradition of making very very longwinded movies, like his previous successes "Forrest Gump" and "What Lies Beneath". Those films were enjoyable, even though they lasted WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY to long. In this case, however, there is very little to enjoy and a lot of time to be bored.
I think the premise of this movie certainly left room for a very interesting movie, but hardly anything ever happens. We see Chuck do some very basic things when he first arrives on the island. Then we make a four year jump and find out that Chuck has hardly done anything in the mean time, and then again he does nothing for a very long time. It's not funny, it's not a good psychological study into loneliness, it's not exciting, it's just plain dull.
Also, after Chuck finally gets rescued, we get a totally pointless half hour episode in which Chuck re-discovers the inhabited world, filled with very hollow symbolism (the unopened package).
Also, the movie looks like it was paid completely by FedEx : the name of this company appears so many times during the course of this movie, that it gets really irritating? Did they use this movie as a two-hour commercial ?
"Cast Away" is boring, pointless and full of hollow symbolism and nonsense. Avoid or be bored to death.
* out of **** stars