Slow beginning, then pretty good

Rating: 6/10 (25 February 2006)

The first 45 minutes of the show establishes the Chuck Noland character played by Tom Hanks as a high-strung Fedex foreman. It could have been done in 5 minutes. Then Chuck is on a plane and it crashes at sea and he washes ashore on an island all to himself. This part is great as we see the clever things he does to get by. Then comes the very weak last half hour of the film. I won't say what happened but it was a snore.
I'm not a big Hanks fan but he's OK here. Interesting also that he really got in shape for this film. For the first month or so on the island he's your typical flabby American. Then after a while he truly slims down and looks like a flat-belly teenager.
As others have commented, this movie almost plays as a Fedex commercial. Really tacky.