Cast Away

Rating: 6/10 (6 November 2007)

The "Forrest Gump"-team tries another film together and it's not bad, what a surprise. In this first sentence I yet tried to include also the reason why it's not really good. This film takes no risk in nothing. I mean if you have Tom Hanks, you could at least take some risks in your story or in the way you shoot your movie or in the themes you choose to treat. You have Tom Hanks, people would still come and watch it. But instead, Zemeckis is satisfied with pure mediocrity, and delivers us a movie with a little bit of action, a dominating love story, a sad end, a whiny score, and Tom Hanks. To cut it short: A little bit for everybody. I hope Zemeckis is not surprised if someone accuses him of making boring movies some day. Boring through their volitional mediocrity. I repeat: It's not bad what we get here, some parts (the first 20 minutes on the island) were actually good, but who cares? You won the predicate: Film for the whole family.