133. 65; movie review

 

65

Cert 12A

93 mins

BBFC advice: Contains moderate threat, injury detail, fantasy violence

A poor man's Lost in Space meets Jurassic Park. 

Sadly, 65 has a very thin storyline and doesn't scare nearly as much as its makers would hope.

And, bear in mind, that they are the folk who brought us A Quiet Place - the most effective monster movie in years.

With 65, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods have taken the audience back to when dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The additional premise is that a spacecraft from a faraway planet has crashed during its return from a two-year expedition, killing all but its pilot (Adam Driver) and a young girl (Ariana Greenblatt).

Somehow the pair don't know each other and can't even communicate because they speak different languages.

Already the plot holes are beginning to emerge. How could it be that on a craft with so few passengers on such a long mission, the pair wouldn't have been at least aware of each other?

I digress.

It transpires that the craft has been brought down by the same unexpected meteor shower that is about to polish off the dinosaurs so our unlikely duo are up against time as well as T-Rexs as they try to find a way back home.

And there is not much more to it than that.

Anyone who has seen the clash with the raptors in Jurassic Park will know exactly what is coming next as the movie's heroes go on a hike for the key part of the wrecked spaceship that might be repairable.

Ok, I did jump twice but overall the action is dismally predictable.

The film might have been saved by chemistry between the leads but, disappointingly, there isn't any because they can't even talk to each other.

It is one of the many follies in a script which fails to convert an interesting premise and or give an actor of Driver's high quality much to do.

Frankly, I will have forgotten 65 by next week.

Reasons to watch: Adam Driver tries his best.

Reasons to avoid: Below today's action movie standards

Laughs: None

Jumps: Two

Vomit: Yes

Nudity: None

Overall rating: 4/10

Did you know? Dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago after living on Earth for about 165 million years. If all of Earth time from the very beginning of the dinosaurs to today were compressed into one calendar year, the dinosaurs appeared January 1 and became extinct the third week of September. Using the same scale, humans have been on earth only since December 31.

The final word. Adam Driver: "Making two people from completely different walks of life, become found family but not really telling that story or landing it into the last moments of the film, which I thought was ambitious and a rare opportunity." Screen Rant

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