Tom Hanks: The Nomad

Aside from the unfortunate production, the first two stills of Tom's first wife, Samantha (including a wedding shot) are of his second and current wife, Rita Wilson. That's a terrible screwup for a documentarian. It casts doubt on the veracity of anything subsequent in the film. The only plus might be the interviews with Tom Hanks, at least I think it's him 🤣.

I expected a much better documentary about such an outstanding actor, like Tom Hanks. He is someone as versatile as Henry Fonda, but seems to be truly admirable in his personal life. I'm curious if this film had any participation from Hanks, himself. Doubtful. He's certainly a better director than the maker of this film.

This is the worst documentary I've ever seen and it's about the best actor I've ever seen! The montages were horrible - images that didn't match the narration, mixed timeframes, even occasionally wrong actors' images being portrayed as Hanks. Several of the interviews were lame, inane and very amateurish. I would be surprised if Hanks saw this and approved its release - - maybe if it was a young student's project for college or even high school credit? There was a whole long and detailed inclusion of Hanks' first wife which most of us know nothing about, while interesting didn't warrant so much coverage. I endured this documentary only because of the source material. Tom Hanks is unignorably fascinating, but sloppy journalism and poor production values do not make up for this!

Who narrated this - an AI robot? Horrible.

I couldn't get into this at all and I am a huge Tom Hanks fan. Terribly made.

This would've been better made if someone like Tim Allen narrated it. It was slow, sounded depressing and did no justice for an amazing actor.

We should stop trying to see AI as a tool of success and use real people instead. I would've loved to have sat and watched the entire presentation but there was no way that was going to happen.

Don't waste your time on this. It makes a great actor look horrible. I hope someone soon comes up with something to replace this terrible documentary.

Unbelievably poorly produced. If it was a 15-year-old girl and she's doing the voice over and it was for a high school project and then I give her a pass.

Outside of that, whoever made this should stick to being a barista.

And now I must BS for several hundred more characters in order to post this review about this incredibly awkward and ridiculously juvenile attempt at making a documentary about Tom Hanks.

In other news, I just watched Forrest Gump for the 27th time and the moment when he asks if his son is smart still gets me. Still gets me real good after all these years. It's a crying out shame that movie only gets 70% fresh on rotten tomatoes.

I don't know who wrote the script for this documentary but it was written bizarrely! I'd be interested to know how many times that poor narrator (Josie Ellis?) had to say the word "would." ... it felt like 3,862,945 times. "And even though Tom *would* go on to blah blah blah, he *would* end up blah blah blahing..." BRUTAL! I honestly started thinking this was originally written in another language and then perhaps google translated into English as a joke. It was as if the writer was trying to prove that they could write complex sentences. Tom Hanks should sue ...but he won't because he is so wonderful. This could've been a ten but fell drastically short due to the script. ... poor Josie.