Should have been cast away....

Rating: 2/10 (9 May 2002)

SOME SPOILERS !
I know Hanks is Americas favorite son, but come on... who nominated him for an Oscar for this rubbish ?
A well-fed Hanks crashes into the sea at X mph. He emerges unscathed (!), to find himself on an island which, it would appear, supports no form of life but little crabs.
He takes two days to work out how to open a coconut. He takes some weeks to figure out how to light a fire. He has no supplies of any kind. At this stage I'm thinking "hmm... this should be interesting..."
He adopts a volleyball. Fair enough.
BUT THEN - up on the screen flashes "Four Years Later" ! I rewound the vid to check if I had misread "four days later" - but no. Then we see the Hank, bearded, and longhaired, but still undeniably fat. Like he'd gone to a Grateful Dead clambake, and woken up in the Eighties.
I had to see the end of this shambles, and was not disappointed. Hanks finds himself at a crossroads in his life. How does Zemeckis portray this ? By having Hanks stand at a crossroads.
Seldom have I seen such nonsense.