Category: sci-fi action
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Planet Of The Apes meets The Land Before Time.
Not a bad movie. Not the best, but also not the worst. And Adam Driver is not a bad lead actor at all. Give that man more roles!
However, 65 (as in 65 million years ago) really does come across to me as if it was made and vetted at every step of the way by Sony. There's just a very Sony feel that I can't explain, but if you're familiar with Sony as an electronic publishing outfit (especially in regards to video games) you'll hopefully know what I mean.
As far as plot goes, it is somewhat by the numbers - an intergalactic courier from an earth-type planet does one final job to earn a payday large enough to pay for his daughter's treatment, but it goes pear-shaped with the pear-shaping coming in the form of an undetected asteroid shower causing the cargo ship to conveniently crash on another earth-like planet - complete with dinosaurs and bad weather. Who would have thought that with advanced space travel technology that they couldn't come up with a way to detect asteroids sooner…hmmm….
And just to add drama to the story, the only other survivor of the trip is a young girl whose parents have died, but conveniently speaks no English…65 million years before English was invented (fuck me, that sounds stupid just thinking about it!) interspersed with flashbacks of Adam Driver's character with his own daughter.
Mix in a lot of terrible lizards of various sizes and stickiness, a hero's journey, equipment that malfunctions at the right time and other contrivances, you'll be surprised that they get as much as they do out of a movie featuring only four actors!
If this movie was made 50 years ago, it would have been revolutionary. The idea of pre-human humans visiting earth and encountering dinosaurs would have been mind-blowing, had not the concept been done before and better.
Enjoyable, though not essential viewing.
FINAL RATING: 2.75/5
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