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Bringing Daniel Defoe's literary classic THE ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE to the screen is a daunting task. Because the novel is essentially told in the mind and silent observations of Crusoe, the filmmaker must make some decisions about what to bring to the screen and how to communicate it effectively.This film though is DEFINITELY NOT Defoe's novel by any small stretch of the imagination.That said....

CRUSOE is a product of what was the Yugoslavian Film Commission and was released in 1988.Naturally, ALOT,and I repeat, ALOT of liberty has been taken with the original source material to come up with a screenplay that can be compelling enough to hold viewers attention.I cannot say that this was wholly successful, but it was an attempt.Though about 5% of the book is represented here, and even that is significantly reworked, this film does not begin to capture the ROBINSON CRUSOE of the novel, but does bring us at least a man who, marooned on an island for some time ( the book was 28 says), endures some hardship and learns some lessons about human nature along the way (again, that is only a sliver of Defoe's book). A young Aidan Quinn does probably the best he could with the material at hand, and as a screenplay freely adapted from a novel it could have been worse,but essentially the movie falls rather flat overall.The location shots are very limited and the shots are uninspired and quite predictable.The film has a look of very low budget. The Michael Kamen soundtrack is probably the worst feature of this film as it is annoyingly uninteresting and does nothing to add or propel this dull movie forward.

ROBINSON CRUSOE would work best as a mini-series.There is just way too much that happens in the book, and the real Robinsom Crusoe does much more than just survive on an island.The fact that Crusoe's first name and his friend "Friday's" name (which has become part-and-parcel with Robinson's) is not even mentioned ,and that the time period is moved 100 years forward from the book shows how little this film resembles even that small section of the book.