Directed by: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
Starring: Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, Nika King, Chloe Coleman
I speculate that "Star Trek Meets Jurassic Park" was a pitch used for 65. This is a dull adventure in which a spaceship from a distant planet crash lands on Earth 65 million years ago and its survivors must fend off predatory dinosaurs in order to escape the planet before that nasty asteroid which wiped out the big guys strikes. Mills (Driver), an explorer, and Koa (Greenblatt), a child, survive the crash and embark on a journey to find the ship's escape pod which was jettisoned in the crash.
Mills leaves behind a wife and a sick daughter who dies while he's away on the years-long mission. Mills also helpfully speaks English, while Koa speaks another language and can't understand any of Mills' instructions. Why does Koa speak a different tongue or why does Mills speak English? No matter. We are to assume that Mills' isn't really speaking English, but whatever his native language is. I suppose this beats an entire movie in subtitles? We are then treated to cumbersome scenes in which Mills and Koa are desperately trying to communicate.
Then, there are the dinosaurs, which are seen only as monsters trying to devour our heroes which need to be blown away by the technologically advanced weaponry Mills has. 65 soon feels more like a video game than a story with characters we care about. Driver and Greenblatt try their mightiest to flesh out thinly drawn people, but they are as trapped in a flat story as we are. The only reason 65 musters two stars instead of less is at least it has the decency to run only 95 minutes.
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