|
|
Forrest Gump on DVD (1994)
All DVDs in this series
RelatedCritics Reviews
Radio Times
Winner of six Oscars, including best picture, actor and director, this comedy drama was a box-office blockbuster in America, though its simple-minded patriotism was greeted with a certain cynicism in Europe. Gump, played by Tom Hanks, is a chump: a semi-literate everyman who drifts through recent American history (Vietnam, the civil rights movement, assassinations, Watergate) and emerges triumphant. He's an athlete, war hero and hokey southern savant, a one-man palliative for a nation's political and moral bankruptcy. His personal credo is “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get”, and that's as profound as the movie gets. But Hanks's performance is truly remarkable and, this being a Robert Zemeckis film, the effects are stunning: Gump meeting people such as JFK and Nixon is amazingly believable, and Gary Sinise as an amputee combines brilliant acting with state-of-the-art technology. One can sneer at it, but one can't ignore it.
A slick comedy as simple-minded as its hero, worth watching for the clever manner in which it slots Gump into the same historical frame as Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He remains a blank on which an audience can project any feelings it chooses, while the f Time Out Played by Hanks with a sing-song Southern drawl and an evangelical earnestness, Gump is the quintessential simpleton,... Read more on www.timeout.com Members ReviewsReviews Voted Most HelpfulMost Recent Reviews |
Similar collections |
Halliwell's Film Guide
