On a post apocalyptic Earth an engineer builds a robot for the sole purpose of looking after his dog when he dies. 

When we meet Finch (Tom Hanks) he is clearing buildings looking for food and supplies. Clad in a radiation suit he marks off on a map another location and heads back to his dog who is safe in the lab he now calls home. As he comes near to finishing his dogs future protector a vast storm that is predicted to last forty days heads toward them. Feeling he has no choice Finch takes his dog and robot on a road trip heading west to San Francisco. On the way he will teach his robot what it is to be human as he slowly dies of radiation poisoning. 

On paper Finch is my kind of film. A post apocalyptic world, a burgeoning artificial intelligence learning to be human and a positive outlook on the impossible. And who better to teach a robot to be human and have a wholesome approach to a bleak world than Tom Hanks? In practice though Finch is actually far to predictable, far too safe and far too long. 

Hanks as ever does a sterling job. He is in Cast Away mode here as he survives using his ingenuity whilst looking far too thin and forming attachments to non-biological life forms. But as the only human on screen with the exception of one very brief flashback he has a lot of heavy lifting to do in a film that runs at 115 minutes long. 

Caleb Landry Jones motion capture work as the robot is also fantastic and the effects to bring him to life is superb. But his artificial voice is incredibly grating and oddly changes as the film goes on to make him sound more human. 

The main issue though is that nothing really dramatic happens. They never run out of food or appear in trouble at any stage and whilst slight hitches appear they are almost immediately resolved or disappear. Leaving the bonding between a man, his dog and his robot. 

Perhaps if I were a dog person I might like this more? Otherwise it is just very average which is a shame.