After the world has been rendered to unlivable conditions by solar flares, rising temperatures and unpredictable weather events (forcing everyone to move underground), a man and his trusty dog struggle to survive. Realizing he's slowly dying of radiation poisoning, Finch decides to build a companion robot in order to take care of his dog when he's gone, entrusting his life to it, as they set off in a reinforced RV to escape an approaching deadly storm.
Despite the very sad (and prescient) nature of the film, I adored it. It's a very stripped down sci-fi story that focuses on relationships above all. The characterization of Jeff was very well done and reminded me of Johnny 5 (Short Circuit) at times. There's something about friendly robots which is really comforting to me. It's too bad this movie got buried on Apple TV's platform. It makes the scale of this movie seem much smaller than originally intended.
3 games of fetch out of 5
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