Everything The Perfect Storm was not. Just extraordinary.

Rating: 10/10 (27 December 2000)

It's not necessary to use many words to describe this movie, as it doesn't use many to tell its story. Awesome silence and aching loneliness mold and sculpt (literally) a man who must deal with cruel fate and cruel nature. The waves that come crashing in on his little island to imprison him as surely as steel bars are far more real, real looking and fearful than the computer-generated fakes in The Perfect Storm. This is the real thing. Tom Hanks is a shoo-in for a Best Actor nomination.