For a movie with a great premise, 65 is so boring and lacks excitement. Set about 65 million years ago, a pilot Mills (Adam Driver) is from the planet Somaris where he has to take a two-year journey to help the illness of his daughter, Nevine (Chloe Coleman). Apparently on other planets far more advanced than us, they don’t have universal health care either.
If you’ve seen any movie set in space and I do mean, any fucking movie set in space, there’s always an issue that goes wrong. The ship is hit by an asteroid field and crash lands on Earth where all the passengers on board are killed except for a child, Koa (Arianna Greenblatt), who speaks a different language and Mills doesn’t have a translater. Mills sends a distress message but discovers an escape shuttle is on top of a mountain a good distance away.
So, it’s become what I call the Point A To Point B movie in which characters attempt to make it to another location. This has become such a common boring trope in sci-fi movies that the movie basically writes itself. And it could’ve been fun to watch. Yet it isn’t. Since his own daughter is ill and may has died, he has a bond with Koa since her parents are dead.
But Driver doesn’t seem up to the role. This should be a fun B-movie, but it feels depressing and dull. Greenblatt herself has become a fine young actress. Yet neither her nor Driver seem to get along too well on screen. Driver takes the role too seriously even though there are some moments that should have been more playful. Considering they hit every obstacle possible in this movie from quicksand terrain to a swamp bog to a cave that eventually collapses, the writers could’ve had some fun with the script.
However, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who also directed) just throw in all cliches that in the end they’re having to race against time for a massive asteroid hitting the planet while battling Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaurs. And it just feels like too much as it all happens during the darkness so we don’t see much, probably so the special effects don’t have to be top notch. Considering what was done in the Jurassic Park and the sequels as well as the 2005 King Kong, these dinosaurs don’t look as impressive.
If you’re considering watching 65, you can easily 86 it from your queue.
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Zane Says 