I was very pleasantly surprised by this one, Tom Hanks not being his usual role. Mind you I think the problem is I saw too many of his old movies. I did enjoy "Apollo 13", and to some extent "Forrest Gump", FG suffered from being so talked about, and oft lampooned on TV and in all the talk shows etc that I just got burnt out on it. As a consequence a modern day retelling of Robinson Crusoe held no appeal for me, especially with Hanks in the lead. I guess I can't blame him for "The Ladykillers", what a terrible re-make.
The opening of the film has a chain of Fed Ex packages making their way to Russia where we meet the most obnoxious of people, the sort of jerk you wish would drop dead, they also introduce you to a philandering husband, who seems to then fall out of the plot.
The island setting is fantastic, you wonder how they could film on such a small beach and never see the camera, especially when they are at the very end of the island, or on top of the island and do 360 pans. Well, apparently almost every scene was packed with CGI, and it was so seemlessly there and so natural looking you just don't notice. Like all the CG in Forrest Gump, except when the president it there.
Sad, moving and fortunately side steps the cliched ending, and with no tribesmen to get in the way.
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