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.

A film star of massive magnitude and long successful career as Tom Hanks is destined to have many documentaries made about him for times to come, during his lifetime and beyond. The low score this small project has doesn't come for the fact that no documentary should be made of Hanks because he's still alive and he has many things to do, or neither because biographies are only special when the subject is no longer alive. It gets a downer vote due to its awkward poor presentation that makes it seem that zero persons were involved with its making/editing, it all feels like a robot put everything together and sent it to the world to see.

It follows the usual television biographical specials showing basic information about Hanks family life and early days, then moves ahead to present his meteoric rise to fame, success, failure, awards and public recognition and other personal ventures. It's hard to go wrong with the facts and basically anyone can do it.

The doc consists of showing countless interviews with Hanks during promotion of his many films, actors and directors also appear being interviewed in a similar manner, and no testimonies from outsiders, film historians and others are shown as made for the project. It's all archive stuff, some are cool to watch, others are just boring.

Outside of those aspects, it's a highly problematic piece where you have an AI narrating the movie. I might be proven wrong if the actress in question comes along but that voice was lifeless through the whole thing, and I think I noticed some errors while she speaks names and words (HAL 9000 would never be doing those things, even he had some life in that soothing voice). Not just that, it feels this was also edited by an AI and cringe mistakes can be easily spotted - Tom Hanks' first wife images are not from hers, it's all Rita Wilson with a different hairstyle, just make a basic web search and you'll see it. Painfully jarring to see that, and another moment where the voice just says Tom and instead of Hanks appearing they showcase a pic of Tom Arnold. There are a couple of moments that stills are shown in a very displicent and careless manner. If this is the future of the world without the human element then I'm frightened about the possibilities.

This only shows the magnifiency of Hanks life and career on a superficial visible level, no profundity whatsoever. Only worths some view just to see his interviews over the years, all cool moments. A future project, better developed and with massive material will come, no doubt, but we'll have to wait a little longer.

A man of his charisma, persona and enthusiasm easily gets one made but until then his movies speak for him and his career. He deserves better. 4/10.

This is a horrible attempt at documentary film making. It honestly reminded me of an educational film from my elementary school days...which were in the 1960s. The narrator or narrator bot is the only thing with a future and that's only because she is either a robot or an automaton wannabe who will thrive when the artificial intelligence overlords take over. Ya know, next year.

Honestly, I suspect this is a film done entirely by artificial intelligence and, for the record, as with much of life these days intelligence is lacking..along with decent writing, interesting facts or even meaningful movie clips.

It's just bad.

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.

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.