‘Finch’: A Man, His Dog & His Robots
Tom Hanks is no stranger to being the only human character on screen in a film.
All through his latest effort, "Finch," I couldn't help but think of him passing his days on the beach and having conversations with a volleyball in "Cast Away."
He gets a little more to work with in this post-apocalyptic tale of a robotic engineer named Finch who just may be one of the last people alive on Earth. Or at least in the United States. We don't get a lot of details, but it appears as though the ozone layer of the planet has deteriorated to the point that being exposed to the sun can kill you. With temperatures at deadly levels and radiation in the air, he has survived in an underground bunker.
It's just Finch, his loyal dog Goodyear and a small scavenging robot assistant that he takes on ...