65 million years ago, in an attempt to earn more money for his daughter's medical care, the space pilot, Mills leaves his wife and daughter for a two years expedition. Unfortunately they encounter an unmapped asteroid field and crash lands on the planet earth. At first Mills believes he is the only survivor and is willing to accept his fate but then he locates a cryogenic pod with a survivor, a little girl by the name Koa. In order to save Koa, Mills has to traverse a dangerous prehistoric landscape filled with dinosaurs to reach the escape pod.
65 is sci-fi survival movie build on the popular trope of a grumpy and sad old man who becomes the adoptive father and protector to a little girl. Combine that with dinosaurs and the constant threat of death and you have an interesting movie. Unfortunately that is about all of the movie, the entire plot is centred around the crash and the following struggle for survival. There is a little set up with Mills family in the start and a small side story telling the viewer about what happened with Mills daughter but the rest of the movie is just constant survival. 65 is like Logan or The Last Of Us if you stripped away every aspect of society and secondary consequences.
Half of the time it is a very pretty movie with nice panoramic shots of the landscape and the other half of the movie is covered in darkness. It is supposed to be a thriller and it works when there is suddenly standing a T-rex in the dark behind them but most of the time you can barely see what is happening. Like many modern movies have been criticised for, it is too visually dark and it really needs to turn the light up a tad.
I will give 65 a rating of three out of five stars. Though the plot is a bit limited, it is still exciting and fun. Ariana Greenblatt is really great and she plays well with Adam Driver. But there are things that does not work. Like the lighting and there is no need for it to be a story set 65 million years ago on a prehistoric earth. It could have been set in literally any time period on literally any fictional planet. They even invent a planet that origins from. The thing about setting it on prehistoric earth, now they have to be somewhat accurate in depiction of the dinosaurs, which they are not. And it raises questions about these humanoids that lived in space before humans came into existence. Where did they come from, where did they go.
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