While the Cast are away

Rating: 6/10 (19 February 2001)

This is clearly a subject which easily captures the human imagination but I will give Zemeckis his due credit, in that I although I groaned at the prospect of two and a half hours of learning to catch fish, light a fire etc, etc, my need to get up and move on remained on hold. So. Good points? An impressive air crash with an underwater ballet reminiscent of Tom Hanks trying to reach a Normandy beach. A wonderful sense of the power and beauty of tides, both in their height, as Hanks battles against them, and their omnipresence as beautifully portrayed from the island mountain top panorama. But most of all for me was the middle of the night eyeball with an enormous whale. Did we dream that?

Ron (Viewed 11Feb01)