Cast Away Official Site ***1/2 of **** Rated: PG-13 Length: 143 minutes Credits: Writer: William Broyles Jr. Director: Robert Zemeckis Cast: Tom Hanks: Chuck Noland Helen Hunt: Kelly Frears Nick Searcy: Stan Christopher Noth: Jerry Lovett Itself: Wilson					Titles & images are property of their respective owners.
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Synopsis: An executive at a global shipping company is the specialist for bringing new foreign offices up to speed.  He is an ambitious company man who wants to propose to his girlfriend after he gets back from an emergency trip to Malaysia.  The plane diverts from its flight plan before crashing and leaving him stranded on an island.  He develops methods for surviving with little on hand.  He finally makes an escape plan to get past the reef and then raft into the shipping lanes.  Once rescued, he starts to re assimilate his life, but his girlfriend has moved on, barely.  What he opts to do from there is debatable. Review: This is a pretty good movie, and you would want to see it in a theater with a good sound system to experience the plane crash and the crashing waves.  Tom Hanks is in it so there will be Oscar nominations.  Much of the movie is spent alone on the island with no one but his alter ego volleyball companion to interact with.  This prevents the movie from going narrative as so many have done recently.  Hanks acting is fine, but the movie leaves a lot of room for variations.  The character's mind is somewhat off as time goes by, so inconsistencies are believable.  The learning curve he has on the island is reasonable and leads to a lot of laughs.   The creative assorted contents of packages that washed up where he did was clever.  The overall island part of the movie was so driven by the situation that the writer should be given as much credit for not doing it wrong as he is for doing it right.  The biggest sad 'awwww' from the audience was the women when he kicked out his companion, and one of the bigger laughs was the men's responding laughter at the women.  The most emotional scenes were when Wilson was lost, and when the ship's aftcastle came into view.  What made this film unique was filming the plane crash from the passenger's point of view.  You don't know why the crash is occurring, and it just happens abruptly with great violence.  The frenetic begginning was a good set up for contrasting the slow pace of island life.  The ending was with an indecision that will annoy American audiences, but really makes a statement in its silence.