Only Hanks Could Have Pulled This Off

Rating: 8/10 (30 December 2000)

There's not much dialogue, monologue, action sequences, special effects, explosions, grand musical scores, breath-taking scenes or the other stuff that usually stick in our minds. It's just Tom stranded on an island with no one to talk to and nothing to do.
That Tom could take this movie and totally keep my interest and thoroughly entertain me was incredible. For that Tom deserves major kudos and this film deserves its high praise. It's a great drama that explores the experience of living in total isolation and the human desire to live and our need for companionship.
-- DP.