{"id":42115,"date":"2023-12-23T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=42115"},"modified":"2023-12-23T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T18:48:37","slug":"65-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/23\/65-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"65 (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s such a shame that audiences just didn\u2019t take to \u201c65\u201d because I had a blast from the minute one. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods\u2019 science fiction survival film is a mix of \u201cEnemy Mine\u201d and \u201cAliens\u201d to where two people with vastly different circumstances have to rely on one another. Adam Driver is the driving force that really propels \u201c65\u201d in to admirable excitement and some genuinely interesting action set pieces. While I wouldn\u2019t have minded more dinosaurs, \u201c65\u201d gets its point across by embracing its inherently pulpy science fiction roots through and through.<\/p>\n

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After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he\u2019s actually stranded on Earth… 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures in an epic fight to survive.<\/p>\n

\u201c65\u201d watches so much like an adaptation of a classic pulp dime novel, and it punctuates the aesthetic with the slicker set designs that avoid turning the prehistoric era of Plane Earth in to a dour and grim war zone. It almost feels like something Roland Emmerich might have trotted out in 1996 prior to \u201cID4\u201d; and I mean that as a compliment. \u00a0If anything what hinders the film (and almost ruins it) is that the dynamic between Driver\u2019s Mills and Ariana Greenblatt\u2019s heroine Koa is so derivative that it\u2019s distracting. It\u2019s an almost beat for beat copy of the relationship between Ripley and Newt from \u201cAliens\u201d to where the young charge has her own way of communicating.<\/p>\n

Mills is even a parent who is mourning the loss of his daughter who he doesn\u2019t really get to experience her last moments alive with. Nonetheless \u201c65\u201d is saved primarily by its atmosphere and sense of excitement. There are so many fun twists and turns that abound all of which are held afloat thanks to Adam Driver. Although we\u2019re given only a glimpse of his life on his home planet, \u201c65\u201d manages to unpack a lot of interesting information, as well as some basic exposition that gives Mills a real emotional stake. When stranded on Earth he has to do what ever it takes to get back to his home planet, and he\u2019s driven primarily by his guilt, and inherent self loathing at missing the final moments of his daughter\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

\u201c65\u201d has a really undeniable novel energy to it with some slick action, some fun villains, and a great bit of chemistry between primary stars Greenblatt and Driver. I wanted to know a lot more about Koa and Mills when their adventure ended and while we\u2019ll never really get a follow up with them, the movie achieves its intention of creating characters you want to see so much more of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s such a shame that audiences just didn\u2019t take to \u201c65\u201d because I had a blast from the minute one. Scott Beck and Bryan Woods\u2019 science fiction survival film is a mix of \u201cEnemy Mine\u201d and \u201cAliens\u201d to where two people with vastly different circumstances have to rely on one another. Adam Driver is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,71,283,906,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-42115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-adventure","tag-dinosaurs","tag-science-fiction","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42117,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42115\/revisions\/42117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}