![]() ![]() This film holds a lot of potential for dramatic potency, and let me tell you, screenwriters William D. If exposition isn't undercooked, it's overblown, forcibly grabbing at your investment, only to actually shake some of the effectiveness within characterization, which is ultimately adequate enough for a degree of investment to be sustained, but limited in genuineness, much like the film's dramatic "depth". The film takes too long to tell a familiar story, and yet, I can't say that I didn't want these familiar characters to be more fleshed out, because as overlong as this film's development sections are, much exposition is rather harshly forced in, at least when there is, in fact, exposition. ![]() The film has plenty of problems, but if there is nothing else about this film that is glaring, it is, of course, the genericism, because even though I wasn't expecting this film to be one of your more unique survival drama blockbuster, cliché, after cliché, after cliché is hit, thus building a predictable path whose conventionalism is exhausting enough without the excess material, which bloats the film into a repetitious 130 minutes of familiar beats. ![]() Hey, the people appear to like this film more than the critics, and frankly, I also liked this little opus a bit more than the usual critic, though that's not to say that I had trouble seeing what the critics are complaining about. Well, "Cast Away" does have one of the greatest actors alive going for it, and Wolfgang Petersen is no Robert Zemeckis, but the point is that if Petersen was returning to the harsh seas yet again in hopes of finding the success of "Das Boot", well, at least he found the financial part of that success. Yeah, I doubt that this extensive disaster drama would be as exciting as it ultimately is if it only took the crew five minutes to get tidal waved like chumps, but hey, as "Cast Away" went on to tell us at the end of the year that saw the release of this film, you don't always need excitement to make a film like this awesome. Man, 2000 seemed to be the year for Clooney to play a guy who forces his buddies to go on an adventure that ends up making some major history, except "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" doesn't exactly hold the pretense of being consistently accurate to historical accounts. Man, there's so much water in this film that these guys are going to need a couple of "ice cubes" (Ah-cha-cha-cha-cha), and I don't just mean that because only white people are crazy enough to go swordfishing during a storm season. Reilly, William Fichtner, John Hawkes and Allen Payne all hop into a fishing boat taking on a perfect storm? I don't know, I was kind of thinking "Three Kings II", because I just can't help but think of that when I see George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg teaming up again, even if they don't have Ice Cube with them. Stop me if you've heard this one: what do you get when George Clooney, Marky Mark, John C. ![]()
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