

(Feel free to tick “biblical reference” off your checklist.) So the three of them pile into a customized Winnebago, point the vehicle west toward San Francisco, and pray that Jeff can learn to be human before his actual human companion shuffles off this mortal coil.įinch is, by design, a road movie, a robot’s coming-of-age tale, an ecological cautionary tale, a sci-fi weepie, Cast Away: The End-Times Edition, and a two-hander drama, with one of said hands being metal. First, however, man, dog and droid have to get out of their dystopian Dodge ASAP, as a storm predicted to last 40 days will essentially leave them imprisoned.
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This tall, loping toddler of a robot - having rejected William Shakespeare and Napoleon Bonaparte as potential names, he’s eventually dubbed “Jeff ” we would have gone with Mecha-Wilson, personally, but whatever - has to be taught how to walk, to properly talk, to understand the responsibility of nurturing a living thing.

Thanks to his dogged collecting of scrap and scanning of books onto a hard drive, he’s about to create a caretaker. But we’re riding shotgun with the Last Everyman on Earth. Because it’s Hanks, however, there’s something oddly reassuring about this gent scavenging for food and navigating monster dust storms. He is also singing Don McLean’s “American Pie” while a miniature makeshift droid - imagine WALL-E fucked a shopping cart - trails him down the aisles of an abandoned superstore. 5 on Apple TV+), he’s marching through the desolate, toxic wasteland of downtown St. When we meet Finch Weinberg, the title character in this worst-case-scenario handwringer (premiering Nov. Yet not even Tom Hanks, national treasure and officially the nicest man in Hollywood USA, can stop the apocalypse. He has rescued mermaids, survived being marooned in deep space and on desert islands, matched wits with albino monks and Somali pirates, solved crimes with canines, and won World War II several times over.
