 65 million years ago dinosaurs roamed this earth and Adam driver and that was enough to get this guy in the theaters day one to see what was gonna shake out let's talk about 65 it's a dinosaur story 65 is an hour and a half long that's music to my ears that's like my favorite thing in the world when I go to a movie and I see it says hour and a half I just perk up I'm like oh we're in for a treat now because it skips the crap it gets down to business and I have to say 65 it gets down to business fast after about seven minutes we're already crash-landed on planet earth back when dinosaurs were rummaging free Adam drive I mean they were always free we were never taking dinosaurs captive and opening theme parks regardless of what Jurassic Park says not based on true story I found out after doing some research of my own the simple story goes like this Mills is off on a planet an earth-like planet that has cool rock waves in the distance he his wife and child have a nice life for them self out on a beach we see no other civilization but we have to assume there's a bustling one somewhere brimming in the distance his kids sick he's a pilot he needs to chart a course for two years down the road where he can get money for medicine and come back and save his family save his save his child things seem to be going swimmingly for about 10 seconds before the ship runs into an unknown unmarked set of asteroids meteors smashing into this thing the ship crashes down in an uncharted planet and that planet is earth I should point out this is a spoiler-free review we're not gonna ruin anything for you I'm just laying out the basic plot so drivers stranded down there Mills there's one other person that did survive and it's a little girl nine or ten years old I have to say this is maybe one of the cutest little kids working in Hollywood right now just an adorable little doll she speaks a native tongue one Mills isn't familiar with and his translator isn't working it's on the fritz so he has to communicate with her through pictures through you know like motions things like that that was that was bullshit I learned that from a movie I recently just watched what was that film it's gonna bother me oh it's creed creed too I think great movie this girl's name koa played by Ariana Greenblatt Ariana does a solid job here great kid actress sometimes it's really hard when there's kids on screen to get invested in them they're annoying they're bad actors this works really well and her relationship with Mills is what's gonna drive this story forward I will say it is a slow story it's a little bit of a slog for some I thought the pacing was actually solid but I couldn't help but feel like it's one of those movies where they had the premise dinosaur planet dude with futuristic weapon that can kind of feel like blow them away okay let's set up the camera in the woods we'll have Adam Driver kind of run around and do stuff and then we'll see GI in dinosaurs later there felt like there was a few moments like that there is definitely foreshadowing in this movie there's definitely a narrative structure to it it's just very by the numbers and that's okay I don't mind by the numbers if it works well and it doesn't overstay it's welcome two things this movie does correctly while I don't think 65 was amazing by any means it certainly was a fun time it kept me interested from beginning to end there's some cool action there's some great set pieces like I said the characters are likeable and they bounce off each other very well think Logan think the road think the last of us this isn't better than any of those but we once again have the father daughter dynamic or the father son dynamic the protector of sorts that needs to get this kid to safety this is a 2023 film Jurassic Park from the 90s has better effects still I don't think anything has really matched it even the newer Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies don't hold a candle to the first one because of the practicality because of the animatronics because of the use of shadow and light to really sell you on these creatures now I will say 65 doesn't have bad effects most of the time they look pretty solid but I'm never once very convinced that Adam Drive is fighting dinosaurs and I know I know they don't exist I know that but the movie can at least make me think that they do we have five or six jump scares in this we have some variety of creatures that you haven't seen in the Jurassic Park movies although 65 only has probably five or six variants of its own and some of the designs look more akin to something Pixar would make and less like real dinosaurs I still thought they were pretty cool I like that it's making its own look to these things and it's just insanity that we've had six Jurassic Park movies and not one gun is fired at a dinosaur that makes contact and kills the thing why have we not been blowing dinosaurs away is pita up on us about this they're not real 65 bucks the trend drivers killing a lot of these things pretty easily too and I love it I eat it up I want more dinosaur hunting in film last thing I want to point out of the visuals outside of the CGI I think the film the look of it is pretty solid some of the night shots are kind of grainy little inconsistent there but for the most part there's kind of this neon infused look throughout with the guns and the ship the music appropriately works it's nothing great it's not Jurassic Park again can't help but compare again though competently made competently executed drivers fun little girl works and when all is said and done it's a nice little meal doesn't emotionally resonate very much it could definitely have hit a lot harder we don't have any interstellar types of tear jerking moments it's just a competently made movie and sometimes that's all you need all right those are my thoughts on 65 did you see it or did you opt out for scream 6 let me know in the comments below like the video if you had a good 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