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...without all those annoying other survivors. Hanks has often played a decent man isolated - in his mind ("Forrest Gump"), his disease ("Philadelphia"), his bereavement ("Sleepless in Seattle") or outer space ("Apollo 13"). As Chuck, he finds his best, most resourceful self in isolation. So does William Broyles Jr.'s script; the 80 mins. it spends on the atoll alone with Hanks make for engrossing storytelling. The film is less sure-footed back in civilization, with the girl Chuck left behind (Hunt). For its soul is on the beach, in its gradually unfolding secrets, its new perils and triumphs. The film...
...helps him ingratiate himself with Darcy Maguire (Hunt), the new creative director at his ad agency. But something goes wrong at about the moment they start getting romantically involved. Maybe it's a failure of chemistry between Gibson and Hunt. More likely it's a failure in the script, attributed to Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa. They just can't seem to establish a consistently bantering tone between the stars. They might also want to re-examine their boring subplots involving Nick and his conventionally rebellious teenage daughter, a romance with a waitress that goes nowhere, and a relationship with...
...depressed, disloyal and near to moronically inarticulate. The only way to approach his short and miserable life (he died in a possibly suicidal car crash at age 44) is as an insoluble mystery, and that's precisely what Harris, the star, director and co-producer of Pollock, does. The script by Barbara Turner and Susan J. Emshwiller offers no explanation of the painter's dysfunction or his genius. We meet him pretty much when his wife Lee Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then...
...Then again, they may just be building the suspense for a big Gore exit, which the veep will script himself if he can force his hands to type...
...theme. If your tolerance for seeing lots of people hanging by their fingertips from icy cliffs is high, you may enjoy the film. On the other hand, when its principals are not so engaged, they are talking through painfully obvious moral dilemmas stated with laughable earnestness in the overwrought script by Robert King and Terry Hayes...