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Not that long ago, a movie like this one — rugged survival drama about an astronaut who has “crash-landed on an uncharted celestial body” and discovers that “there’s something alien out there” — would have ended with a solemn revelation like “and that planet… was Earth. *insert Charlton-Heston-they-did-it.gif
Only M. Night Shyamalan attempts cheese like that anymore, almost always unsuccessfully, so — thank the Maker — 65 makes it perfectly clear from its opening credits, from its trailer even, that 65 million years ago on planet Earth is absolutely, definitely where Adam Driver’s downed star pilot finds himself. And not even with the sort of Velveeta that the film’s marketing description suggests! Direct quote: “Mills (Adam Driver) quickly discovers he’s actually stranded on Earth… 65 million years ago.” LOL, no. Such a “discovery” would require that he understands that he is living in the distant past of a species millions of years from evolving into a form in which it can even create a civilization. Why would he think that? As far as Mills is concerned, he has literally crash-landed on an uncharted celestial body inhabited by something literally alien, because he’s on a planet that is, by definition, alien to him.
(La-la-la *fingers in ears* don’t talk to me about the fact that Adam Driver’s 65-million-years-ago astronaut looks exactly like one of the very same upright bipedal primates who would go on to evolve on the planet he randomly happened to crash on all those megayears ago. I’m taking his physical biological appearance as sci-fi shorthand for “person from a technologically sophisticated culture.” Though maybe the movie could have at least given him a funny forehead or something, Star Trek style.)
Ironically enough, however, the notion that a long-ago spacefarer crashed on prehistoric (from our standpoint) Earth and has to survive dinosaurs remains the only nominally intriguing thing about 65, and of course it shoots that wad early on. This is a movie of few ideas and little suspense, mystery, or excitement. There aren’t even that many dinosaurs. *insert Ian-Malcolm-so-eventually-you-will-have-some-dinosaurs-on-this-dinosaur-tour.gif*
If only the writing-and-directing team of Scott Beck and Bryan Woods — among the screenwriters of A Quiet Place — actually explored the idea of Earth as an “alien” world! There is some brief initial power in the perspective-shift this setup demands: I dunno, some Battlestar Galactica–esque “this has happened before, and will happen again” shit, like. The movie never capitalizes on that, though, never even seems to appreciate that this is a possibility. There is nothing to 65 except Adam Driver (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Logan Lucky) shepherding the only other survivor of their crash, a nine-year-old girl (Ariana Greenblatt: In the Heights, Love and Monsters) — he was the pilot, she was a passenger in cryofreeze — through a (minimally) dino-infested forest to what he hopes is an intact escape pod that might get them off the planet.
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