KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

blrnani There is no point being faithful to a book written far in the past if you want to make money from the film, as the cultural bridge would just be too huge. Nevertheless, I think this film does a good job of adapting the story for a late 20thC audience. Perhaps its biggest achievement is that you don't think "Bond" at all, once you move beyond the opening fight scene. The notion that a year at sea will make everything okay, in a country notorious for nurturing grievances over centuries, stretches credibility, but one can understand he's loth to be parted any longer than that from his great love. By the same token, the idea that she would've waited over 6 years for him to come back to her, in an age when a woman's only hope of preserving/improving her standard of living was to obtain a good marriage, beggars belief, but is nicely romantic, amid the immediacy of our present times (cf. the ending of Cast Away). "Swiss Family Robinson" is more fun as an adventure story, while "Cast Away" handles the logistical and emotional challenges of being alone on a Pacific island superbly. Robinson Crusoe's strength is in bridging the cultural divide between a Christian European and a cannibalistic islander at a time when the former considered themselves so superior to the latter that slavery was considered normal practice - showing the common bond between humans that transcends all the superficial differences of gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, class, etc that so easily divide us. So there is plenty of food for thought here, but it can also be enjoyed as a simple adventure story.

Jackson Booth-Millard I am quite fond of desert island films and programmes, two I most enjoy are Tom Hanks in Cast Away, and of course, the brilliant Lost series, and I heard so much about this story that I decided to give this one a go. It is the 18th Century, and the film begins with a guy giving Daniel Defoe (Ian Hart), the writer of the classic novel, the journal a man's true story of survival. Then it obviously moves into the world of this man, in the 17th Century, Robinson Crusoe (Pierce Brosnan, an Irishman playing a Scotsman) was the ordinary man who flies Britain after killing his friend over the love of Mary (Polly Walker), and the fierce ocean storm wrecks the ship, leaving him stranded by himself on an uncharted island. He learns to fend for himself, gets a companion with the Captain's dog, Skipper, and he uses all the food and tools that survived in the ship wreckage. After spending more time their, over at least a year, he settles and creates a more home, i.e. house, for himself and the dog to live. But he finds he is not alone though, when he sees a tribe sacrificing a man, who he saves, and over months he teaches his new friend, "Man Friday" (William Takaku), to speak quite good English. They know the tribe will be back, so they plant traps all over the place, but they are still captured, and in the end they have a choice to kill one another, or both die, but sadly the British show up and wrongly kill Friday. Also starring James Frain as Robert, Damian Lewis as Patrick Connor and Dracula: Dead and Loving It's Lysette Anthony as Mrs. Crusoe. A interesting story of survival, religion, teaching, friendship, and (slightly annoying) love. I can see why the critics give it two out of five stars. Okay!

cardservice2004 I love the "lost on an island" concept. I gave this movie a chance based on that idea. What a disappointment! It looks like this is pretty low budget...made for TV. I knew something was fishy by the fact there were no quoted reviews on the case. In this day and age, where there are 50 quotes on every case, this movie had not one positive response to reference. Even ain't it cool news must have given it the thumbs down. I can almost guarantee Pierce Brosnan wishes he never made this. I would say, unless you are showing this to a child in the 5-10yr old range, forget about it (but even then, they have a few scenes of needless violence).

Jessica Carvalho If you watch ''Robinson Crusoe '', expecting it to be an adaptation of the novel written by Daniel Defoe, forget it, because you are really going to hate it. As a book adaptation, this movie sucks, since many facts were changed, and others, included in the movie, never existed. The character Mary and the fact that Crusoe was not in love when he went to the sea, Crusoe spending less then 5 years on the island( when he stayed almost 30 years)Friday being killed on the island ( when he went to Europe with Robinson), Robinson being a lord (when he was never a lord) and so on, are just a few to mention.But as a movie,without thinking about the book,we can consider it good, with beautiful scenarios and a nice plot.It all starts, when Robinson Crusoe needs to stay away from Britain, since he killed his friend over the love of Mary, a woman he knows since they are kids. Robinson and Mary are in love, but they cannot marry until Robinson stay away from Britain for a while, to the locals forget about his acts. So Robinson takes a ship and starts traveling to many places, until an ocean storm wrecks his ship, and leaves him alone on a desert island. Needing to know how to survive on that place and also trying to go home, Crusoe stays alone for years, until the day he saves a native man from being sacrificed, whom he calls '' Friday''. They start a friendship, and they both learn many things,specially Crusoe, who learns how to respect other cultures and religions besides his own.Ps: ''Cast Away'', the movie where Tom Hanks is alone on an island, have many things in common with this movie,including the fact that both men let their women behind and needs to find ways to survive alone on a desert island. Probably if you enjoy ''Robinson', you are going to like ''Cast''as well(And Vice versa).Ps2: READ the book. It is REALLY good and considered one of the most widely published books in history.