I am sorry, but those who thought that Tom Hanks should have won an oscar or other such nonsense need to see more films. His performance, most especially in the middle portion, was one-dimensional. The beginning was mildly entertaining, highly cliched and predictable. Tom shouts a lot and is generally obnoxious and insensitive. Then he ends up on the island and shouts some more. Hanks' acting technique: if I shout loud and often enough and lose weight, I'm a great actor. We were supposed to see despair, hope, weariness, introspection, anger, frustration and sorrow. What we got was a lot of crazed shouting. Loud and grating, crazed shouting. If you take out the middle portion of this movie, you have a very unoriginal, short mildly entertaining mainstream movie - with the middle, it just plain stinks.