There is joint relatability and some inter-species chemistry, it has to be admitted, and this film played an important part in establishing Hanks’s brand identity. Hanks plays a cop called Turner, who has to take care of a big, sloppy lovable dog called Hooch who is the only witness to his owner’s murder. Playing opposite a big adorable dog is something only an adorable actor can do. While DiCaprio fakes being a lawyer or an airline pilot, Hanks is the authentic authority figure, who seems to have a sneaking admiration for DiCaprio’s ingenious illegal hi-jinks. Hanks is the cool counterweight to a young Leonardo DiCaprio here he plays the stolid, even-tempered FBI man on the trail of DiCaprio’s notorious teenage conman in this stranger-than-fiction true story. Not a bad role for Hanks, but it doesn’t quite come to life. Sully (2016)Ĭlint Eastwood directed Hanks in this true-life hagiopic about the heroic airline pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III who, with staggering coolness under pressure, landed his damaged US Airways Flight 1549 on New York’s Hudson river and got all 155 passengers and crew off unscathed, only later to suffer an investigation from the contemptible pen-pushers and corporate bean-counters. A high-minded oddity on his CV.Īaron Eckhart and Tom Hanks in Sully.
He plays a mob hitman in 1930s Chicago who, with his small son in tow, is going to track down the guys who killed most of his family. Road to Perdition (2002)Ī darker role for Hanks notable, although it doesn’t really play to his strengths. Maybe it would have worked better if he was the straightahead good guy whose innocent pastimes were misinterpreted. The ’Burbs (1989)Ī nosy suburbanite obsessed with his neighbours’ supposed dirty dealings? That’s the role here with which Hanks does his best. Hanks is the dashing Harvard symbologist Dr Robert Langdon, who deciphers occult signs in Renaissance artworks about Jesus in these clunky adaptations of the bestsellers by Dan Brown (whose books had specified that the hero resembled Harrison Ford).
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) / Angels & Demons (2009) Hanks has a cameo as a dead Elvis Presley impersonator here ironic, as he got Covid-19 while on location in Australia filming Baz Luhmann’s Elvis biopic, in which he was due to play Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker. This was one of the Hankster’s two directorial credits and it is a dull and lifeless autumn-years romcom, with Hanks playing opposite Julia Roberts, who is every bit as uneasy as the man himself.
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