Difficult to imagine the mentality that thinks this is "JUST GREAT!"

Rating: 2/10 (15 May 2009)

I am forced to believe that a film as bad as this says more about how unsophisticated American film audiences have become. How this manipulative, vapid, empty, poorly written, pointless piece of dreck of a film could even be made is beyond me. And it IS all those things.
Hanks does his usual superficial acting that audiences seem to suck up like professional wrestling. They do not see the emptiness of his performance, the lack of soul, or spirit, and how manipulative it is, or attempts to be. Example: people (uh, women) were actually in tears when "Wilson," started to drift away. Am I crazy or was that a ball with a face painted on it? A good script would have had Hank's character speak lines that poetically spoke to his 1) encroaching madness 2) his loneliness 3) fear 4) anger etc, etc... what did we get? Grunts and groans, mostly, because, I suspect, these writers or the director knew not to trust Hanks (basically an awful actor) with lines of any meaning.
Look, just stay away from this insult to film making, art, and all of us.