Film Review - 65 (2023)

65 is written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods who helped write the A Quiet Place films and Sam Raimi is a producer on the film as well, Adam Driver stars as Mills a pilot in charge of an interstellar mission when his ship crash lands on what he thinks is an Alien world but is actually prehistoric earth 65 million years ago and he and the other survivor of the crash a little girl named Koa (Ariana Greenblatt) must now fight to survive on that terrible Planet of the Dinosaurs.

Wait a minute?

Dinosaurs,

THAT WAS OUR PLANET

And sadly 65 might have some of you going “YOU MANICAS, YOU STUFFED IT UP, DAMN YOU, DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL” because while its not a bad movie per se its also a movie that while I was watching it made me appreciate all the more what Krasinski brought to the A Quiet Place films Beck and Woods co-wrote because this script feels a lot like a rough draft that was rushed into production.

It feels like its in such a hurry to get to the stranded on the Planet of the Dinosaurs (one scene had me saying to myself “Get your stinking claws out of my face YOU DAMN DIRTY RAPTOR!!) that as a result the setup of the story is either ignored or was cut out in the editing room and you sit there thinking “wait a minute what’s the mission he’s going on, I get why he’s going but what was it” and by the time you get to the Driver Vs Dinos action there’s not a lot to feel invested in in terms of whether he and Koa are going to make it or not.

That said however the look of the prehistoric Earth is good and there are some fun action scenes in the film but they don’t come with the thrills or excitement or danger or tension that should have because the storytelling has been hurried along at such a quick pace that you don’t really get all that invested in them and it’s a shame because the preview for this movie made it look like the kind of film I sorely wish Jurassic World Dominion had been last year but you can’t win them all I suppose.

And so that was 65 and it’s not a bad movie but a very forgettable one despite some good moments and I won’t be surprised if a comet strikes this one at the box office, 2 out of 5.