The film has lots of fun details (the raft, for instance) and you can tell there's been put some loving work into it, but that's about it. The character Joe is at times poorly played by Hanks, though it must be said he didn't get a lot to work with. The same goes for Ryan and her characters, and for the 'chemistry / romance' between the leads. I am sorry to say.
In the beginning there's a lot of bleakness, the settings are pretty neat and there is hope for an okay storyline. That hope diminishes by the minute when Joe gets to go shopping with a big wallet and subsequently gets into all kinds of incoherent boredom along the way. And no, there is no fight between Joe and the volcano...
I can appreciate the fact that director Joe Dante wanted to put in some sarcastic observations on some mind-numbing aspects of industrial society that are finally overcome by hope and a sense of life around us, maybe even on the field of medicine / psychiatry, but it's still a straight up flop for the greater part. Again, I'm sorry to say.
A (very) small 4 out of 10.
In the beginning there's a lot of bleakness, the settings are pretty neat and there is hope for an okay storyline. That hope diminishes by the minute when Joe gets to go shopping with a big wallet and subsequently gets into all kinds of incoherent boredom along the way. And no, there is no fight between Joe and the volcano...
I can appreciate the fact that director Joe Dante wanted to put in some sarcastic observations on some mind-numbing aspects of industrial society that are finally overcome by hope and a sense of life around us, maybe even on the field of medicine / psychiatry, but it's still a straight up flop for the greater part. Again, I'm sorry to say.
A (very) small 4 out of 10.