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Nov 6, 2021 · Finch review: This time Tom Hanks' castaway pal is a winning CG robot. Where's Wall-E? An impressive robot joins Hanks for a relatively gentle end-of-the-world on Apple TV Plus now. Richard...
Nov 3, 2021 · Reviews. ‘Finch’: Review. By Fionnuala Halligan 3 November 2021. Tom Hanks, a robot, and a scene-stealing dog take a road trip across a devastated America for Apple TV+. Dir. Miguel Sapochnik....
- Finch pulls the heartstrings, but ultimately feels soulless.
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By Samantha Nelson
Posted: Nov 4, 2021 2:30 pm
Finch debuts on Apple TV+ on Nov. 5.
Apple TV+’s Finch stars Tom Hanks as an engineer trying to survive in a stunningly bleak post-apocalyptic wasteland with the help of a robot he builds from scavenged parts and scanned books. The resulting AI, Jeff (Caleb Landry Jones), is charmingly human in his efforts to please his creator, but the film itself lacks the same animating spark. The script by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell feels like a soulless imitation of better films.
In the near future, solar flares have shredded Earth’s ozone and left the planet an irradiated desert. Hanks’ Finch Weinberg was a misanthrope even before the disaster and blames humanity’s poor reaction to the crisis for how devastating it became, but having an external cause for the catastrophe creates an unnecessary level of abstraction from what could otherwise be a dark warning about effects of climate change.
Finch’s isolation evokes Hanks’ Academy Award-nominated role in Cast Away, while his methodical, engineering solutions to a series of crises he must face alone are more similar to Matt Damon’s performance in The Martian. But in both those cases, the toll of loneliness feels stronger. Finch is never really alone but accompanied by his dog, Goodyear; Dewey, a scavenging robot that resembles Wall-E; and Jeff, who is capable of having real conversations and taking initiative even when his judgment isn’t sound.
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Excellent visuals and strong performances make moments of Finch shine, but the film’s lackluster story never really feels like it justifies its existence. A mashup of Cast Away, The Martian, Wall-E, and I Am Legend, Finch can’t quite commit to the tone or themes it wants to embody and winds up lacking a meaningful identity or message of its own.
Nov 3, 2021 · Finch review: Tom Hanks is exceptional in Apple TV+'s moving sci-fi. A road trip worth taking. By Ian Sandwell Published: 03 November 2021. Tom Hanks has experience carrying a movie all by...
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Nov 3, 2021 · Finch, Tom Hanks. ‘Finch’ Review: Tom Hanks Pledges to Protect His Dog in Impressively Scaled Sci-Fi Charmer. Reviewed online, Nov. 1, 2021. MPAA Rating: PG-13.
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Nov 5, 2021 · The end of the world is bleak and scary, but in the sci-fi drama Finch, Tom Hanks, his amazing robot, and a fuzzy dog offer a ray of light in the darkness.
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