I rented this movie because I heard that Tom Hank’s who plays an FedEx employee shipwrecked on a small island entertains you all by himself for an hour and a half. It is not true. The movie is painfully slow in large part because it has nothing significant to say.  I had so much time while watching the film that I almost wrote an entire script for another Robin Crusoe movie. In my script the stranded person, contrary what you would expect of the genre, does not get rescued but after a long life dies all alone peacefully on the island. Because the person strangely enough lived out an interesting life  you are not upset about this end. Rather you would leave the cinema telling yourself: Hey, if one can have a meaningful life all by oneself on a small island one should have a great life in the midst of civilization!  Cast Away is predictable and boring.