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 obviously AI generated and narrated. It's full of errors (for example, a displaying a photo with his current wife while mentioning his previous marriage) and tacky, awkward transitions between stock images and archived interviews. Viewing it and listening to the artificial voiceover felt almost like being in some kind of dystopian, alternate reality. I highly doubt this was authorized by Tom Hanks, and he should demand that Prime removes it.

Even more disturbing is how Amazon tried to release this onto it's streaming service with no disclaimer about its AI origin, as though it wouldn't be detected. If this is the future of production, I'm out!

I can't stop watching it - it's so bad.

The narrator drew me in with her "English" use of whilst, but with a flat standard American accent. It is British, given that when money is discussed, they use pounds, not dollars.

This is truly SO BAD!! WHILST (sorry) first wife, Samantha Lewes, was mentioned a few times, every photo that was said to be of Samantha was actually of current wife, Rita Wilson. That is a serious WTF.

I'm 15 minutes in and realized my face has been pinched up the entire time, it's SO BAD.

It's mostly watching a young Tom Hanks being interviewed - which is interesting to a degree. But there is SO much of it.

I don't usually do this but, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME - unless you want to study how NOT to do a 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.

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!