#Meander film review movie

“Tell me something interesting,” he says, and then, when the robot (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) responds with a fact about giraffes, he says, “Tell me something interesting about you.”

But Finch cannot resist investigating what his creation can do. There's a moment of wry humor as the computer program Finch is using to program the robot responds with an all-too-familiar message on the screen: “Please call technical support for assistance.”īecause they have to hurry, only 72 percent of the data is uploaded to the robot, and there's only time for a just a couple of quick lessons on vital matters like walking without falling down. But the storm is getting closer very quickly. And so, he builds a bigger robot, scanning his entire library to upload it as memory. The other conflict becomes more apparent when we see Finch cough up blood. One of them concerns a fast-approaching storm that's so devastating they can no longer stay in his home/lab in St.

#Meander film review movie

But as the movie begins, Finch has to make some changes. Goodyear the dog and a cute little robot named Dewey (like the one in “ Silent Running”) are his only companions. Creating gizmos and foraging in a high-tech hazmat suit has kept him occupied and helped him stay alive for 15 years after the end of nearly everything.

Finch, once an engineer and computer whiz, is a loner and a tinkerer by nature. Now, even a few seconds in sunlight burns exposed skin. A sun flare has wiped out the ozone layer and most human, animal, and plant life on Earth with devastating radiation.