95% of the movie is superb

Rating: Null/10 (25 December 2000)

An honest journey into a man's fight for survival demonstrating how life without the material world is barely even life for modern day civilisation. Examining solitude in a way perhaps never before explored in such a popular medium. Over an hour of the movie is speech-free, putting focus on to both Tom Hanks and Robert Zemekis to deliver -- and they really do deliver.

The 5% I was less than impressed with constituted the ending: shallow, rushed, and unlikely.
(potential spoiler below!)
Four years in desperate solitude would have changed his personality dramatically, and that provided a great opportunity for a consistently excellent ending, yet the final cut of the ending doesn't quite deliver. You're left thinking that the ending belonged to an entirely different movie.
The beginning and middle section, however, are easily worthy of oscars, and worth many times the money spent at the theatre.