![]() ![]() ![]() He’s an incredible actor, with the amount of depth and humanity he injects into his character raises what could be a lifeless plot into a sufficiently human story. Once again, Finch is just Tom Hanks doing his Tom Hanks thing. It’s that emotional state the audience will feel for the robot Jeff is part of Finch’s achievement, taking a character without a conscience and having the audience fearful of anything happening to him. Landry Jones does the motion capture and vocal work, which is surprisingly funny, given the current state these characters are in. At first I was a bit taken back, laughing at the silliness of it all, but as the journey of Finch goes along, weathering sand storms, and car accidents on the way, I found myself loving the clunk of junk. The other major factor is the robot itself, which has the moving style of a C-3PO or Chappie and a voice that sounds like a robotic version of Borat. ![]() His performance as Finch is not Cast Away level greatness, but it seems his ability to perform in an isolated scenario once again is just more evidence that he’s the greatest at making the most of his surroundings. Even when the runtime is a bit long or the plot feels a bit redundant, it’s never a problem to spend time watching the marvelous acting skills of Tom Hanks. His Finch character is being affected by the radiation that hits him from above, coughing up blood, frustrated by the lonely time that he has, and Tom Hanks makes every moment of it believable. It’s the latter half that does all the heavy lifting, where Tom Hanks once again shows his grace in the face of disaster. The direction from Miguel Sapochnik- a director that has mainly dealt in television such as Game of Thrones– is that he keeps the special effects on the robotics and the decimated environment, while letting Hanks have his space to go to work. What’s different in the screenplay from Craig Luck and Ivor Powell, is the way it treats the robot as more human, an entity that is learning for the first time like a child, but quicker to adapt with super-powered intelligence. The primary directive is for someone to protect Goodyear when Finch is gone and when a massive storm rolls in, Finch and his crew must trek across the country to San Francisco in hopes of finding safer spaces.Īs far as science fiction films go, Finch is not entirely new, where movies such as Short Circuit, Her, and Bicentennial Man have focused on the relationships of humans and robots. First the goal is to teach his tall robot to walk, communicate, scavenger, and survive as he does. He hunkers down in an old robotics laboratory, feeding his dog, uploading data onto available servers, and building his new robot friend that we eventually call Jeff (Caleb Landry Jones doing excellent motion capture and voice work). Louis, Missouri, singing Don McLean’s “American Pie”, as he enters various rundown establishments, looking for food with his real dog Goodyear and his robot dog Dewey. The movie opens with Finch roaming through what used to be St. Finch is a marvel of man connecting with machines, lifted by an excellent Tom Hanks performance, surviving together at the end of the world. Only, this isn’t just a story about a man and his dog, but a story about ingenuity and survival. Here he plays Finch Weinberg, a robotics engineer, living in a post-apocalyptic world, where the ozone layer is ripped to shreds, the earth is covered in sand, and the only thing keeping him company is his trusty dog. I don’t even know why I am surprised, but that surprise is always welcome, as Tom Hanks never ceases to amaze me. He did it with a volleyball in Cast Away, he’s done it with a mute girl in News of the World, and now he’s proving himself, yet again, in Finch. ![]() ’s RATING: 3 STARS (Out of 4)įinch answers the age-old question, “can Tom Hanks act beside a dog and a robot as good as he can against his fellow thespians?” Surprisingly, or at this point unsurprisingly, yes, Tom Hanks can deliver an excellent performance with a dog and a robot. ![]()
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