Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

jassay I remember watching this in the cinema when I was just 20 years old. My friend and I found the part where Tom Hanks is talking to Wilson, the volleyball, pretty funny. We even held our bellies in belly laughter; it was hysterically funny to us for some reason that I've forgotten this 18 years later.The next evening I was reading the newspaper at my night shift gas station attendant job when I saw an editorial in the Ottawa Sun about the movie. The writer was furious about two young men laughing during the movie The Castaway that he wrote a scathing article about the incident and the impudence of the youth and the lack of respect for serious movies.I didn't feel particularly scolded; I just felt that this man needs to calm down or perhaps get a hemorrhoid removed.In fact, the friend I brought with me to the cinema was having a hard time at University and the movie was a good way to cheer him up.The Ottawa Sun columnist was so upset by the incident that he actually wrote a follow up a few days later. Maybe he didn't have a lot of things to write about.I imagine that he was thinking this during the movie,"Those impudent ingrates!!! My society makes entertaining serious movies to shape up these rebellious, slovenly, backwards youths and they scoff in my face?! Laughing during the movie? During my viewing time no less?! I am a columnist! You will pay two teenagers! I'll write one scathing article to fix you right the heck up! No, not one, two really scathing articles! Two articles later and you will be so sorry!

Donovan002 What a wonderful story, and performance. I've watched this several times and it is just so good. A simple but well told story with a touching and emotional finale.Good story, good directing, good acting, and good music!

dragana-dabovic The movie that will tell you everything that you did not know about roots of life, of humanity, of religion...Chack Nolland human being suddenly exposed to dramatic anger of Nature's forces in spite of all cruelty of the circumstances keeps and shows his humanity in every smallest detail. The message and the revealing of the movie is outstanding: humans are specific beings that have by their nature the need for love, for building of memories, for believe in salvation... The loss of volleyball Wilson (aka the shadow of Chack's own personality, to the Yung's psychology ) is symbolic deliberation after which he finally founds salvation (the Sheep that founds Chack in deep Sea after he lost every hope) that is in a matter of fact ultimate Bible's message: loose everything and you will be saved... The movie that leaves me deeply touched for days after each watching...If you are ready to meet your soul, you must see this movie...

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU A good film though, of course, a little bit humdrum since we are dealing with a rewriting of the famous Robinson Crusoe story financed by FedEx. Of course, our Robinson Crusoe has to have a Friday, and it is a volleyball with a bloody handprint on it.It shows how resilient a man can be in any situation, even when he speaks of or caresses the idea of suicide. Life will call him back to resilience please and he will get some satisfaction. Here he twins his fate with his favorite hand-imprinted volleyball named Wilson, its brand name. The relation is close and he speaks to it all the time, to the point we could call it "him" as if it were a real boy.He manages to conquer some fire, then to cook some food after breaking many coconuts. He survives like that for four years till the tide brings in some plastic contraption he is going to use as a sail for the raft he decides to build. He will stay lost on the vast Pacific Ocean for days, meet one curious whale and finally be picked by a container monster ship and reinstated in life by FedEx. His girlfriend has married in the meantime. He sure rediscovers her one night but that does not go beyond some preliminaries, at least we think so, though maybe . . . The good ending will come from one FedEx package he had recuperated on his desert island and brought back with him but the film remains open on the suggestion that there is always a good ending to all stories around the corner if you are receptive to any extra-sensorial messages.Enjoy the adventure and dream of what you could have done in such a situation.Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU