When I first heard the concept of this movie I was in. Getting humans to interact with dinosaurs has about two options: Jurassic Park or time travel. This had a new idea which was creative. But, I was 99% sure they were going to screw it up. First of all it's a movie from 2023 and the last ten years or so doesn't have the best track record. And it was called 65. 65. As in 65 million years ago? That is an immensely stupid and uncreative title. But you never know. It's just a title. But in this case it's dead on.
The movie opens on some alien planet with very human like people, talking very human and not acting like anything from another planet. Okay, they don't want to spend much time on something that doesn't take up that much screen time? But I did think that since these aliens were so human that they would be what made us on Earth. Adam Driver stays on Earth and leaves behind the makings of our existence or survives somehow? No. He just leaves at the end. While the dinosaurs are going extinct and astroids are raining from space and the big one crashes.
The credits are done over dying dinosaurs. What? What was the point of this? It was so stupid. Maybe if they used this more, like he was here studying them, or wanted to make a colony but then it was going to be destroyed and he had to leave? I don't know, something.
He crash lands, of course, and everybody dies, of course, so what follows is your basic survival movie. Then the title comes in after about 20 minutes. That's too long of a pre credit scene. It didn't feel like an intro either. Scorsese pulls it off in The Departed but this movie didn't. They waited to say the title until you saw a dinosaur so 65 could pop up on the screen followed with "Million years ago. Earth." Yeah, no s**t, we saw the preview, read the synopsis, we know what this movie is about. Was that supposed to be a surprise?
The dinosaurs are hardly in it, they look great by the way, all the CG is top drawer. But unfortunately every scene with them is the most cliched thing ever. They hear a noise and look intently at it, but then it sneaks up behind them. It's full of that crap.
There is a little girl that survives, of course mirroring the little girl he left behind, of course and for some reason there are these two goofy scenes with her in a row? Like the movie was either too serious or too short and they went back and added these. They didn't fit in at all.
Adam Driver is very good in this. He was wasted. He could have phoned it in and I don't think anyone would have blamed him. But he does a great job selling it and being believable. He does a great job and doing something in his face while he's looking and waiting for the dinosaurs to show up behind him. I don't know what it is, but it was very good. Anyway, another wasted effort from Hollywood. This makes me wonder, are movies going extinct?
The movie opens on some alien planet with very human like people, talking very human and not acting like anything from another planet. Okay, they don't want to spend much time on something that doesn't take up that much screen time? But I did think that since these aliens were so human that they would be what made us on Earth. Adam Driver stays on Earth and leaves behind the makings of our existence or survives somehow? No. He just leaves at the end. While the dinosaurs are going extinct and astroids are raining from space and the big one crashes.
The credits are done over dying dinosaurs. What? What was the point of this? It was so stupid. Maybe if they used this more, like he was here studying them, or wanted to make a colony but then it was going to be destroyed and he had to leave? I don't know, something.
He crash lands, of course, and everybody dies, of course, so what follows is your basic survival movie. Then the title comes in after about 20 minutes. That's too long of a pre credit scene. It didn't feel like an intro either. Scorsese pulls it off in The Departed but this movie didn't. They waited to say the title until you saw a dinosaur so 65 could pop up on the screen followed with "Million years ago. Earth." Yeah, no s**t, we saw the preview, read the synopsis, we know what this movie is about. Was that supposed to be a surprise?
The dinosaurs are hardly in it, they look great by the way, all the CG is top drawer. But unfortunately every scene with them is the most cliched thing ever. They hear a noise and look intently at it, but then it sneaks up behind them. It's full of that crap.
There is a little girl that survives, of course mirroring the little girl he left behind, of course and for some reason there are these two goofy scenes with her in a row? Like the movie was either too serious or too short and they went back and added these. They didn't fit in at all.
Adam Driver is very good in this. He was wasted. He could have phoned it in and I don't think anyone would have blamed him. But he does a great job selling it and being believable. He does a great job and doing something in his face while he's looking and waiting for the dinosaurs to show up behind him. I don't know what it is, but it was very good. Anyway, another wasted effort from Hollywood. This makes me wonder, are movies going extinct?