Review : “65” : A banal survival saga eons ago!
#Hollywood is looked up to by the world #cinema makers as they have always toyed with genre-novelty. One of them was the era, thousand of years back, consisting of #Dinosaurs etc. But this genre seems to have reached a saturation point and anything depicting that doesn’t catch viewer’s fancy these days. Latest #SciFi adventure film “#65” falls into that category. The film’s plot takes place 65 million years back when the earth was not discovered by the human race. The happenings and the plot don’t offer anything novel thus making the proceedings mundane and repetitive.
Adam (Adam Driver) says goodbye to his family, comprised of wife and an ailing daughter, to take on a voyage in the sky. The story happens some 65 million years ago, but the protagonist is dressed in twentieth century attires and speaks chaste English. His space ship collides with meteorite and crashes into planet earth which is inhabited by Dinosaurs and Co. He meets a girl Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), who is of the same age as his daughter, and they are the only humans on earth at that point of time. Ironically the girl doesn’t speaks or understands his language and the communication becomes difficult. This hindrance heightens because both of them surrounded by brutal animals, poisonous creatures and of course Dinosaurs. But he decides to keep this girl safe. How he manages the Dinosaurs’ attacks and saves him and the girl forms the crux of the narration.
The story doesn’t have novelty and the film relies heavily on technical aspects. The screenplay has a few emotion filled scenes and those are well picturised. The director duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, who have also written the script, try to infuse cinematic power into the film but the writing should have been better. The protagonist fighting mammoth creatures, that too without any super human powers, is a bit going overboard. Though the cinematography is exceptional, the film lacks the emotional connect. CGI and technical aspects are superior and action around dinosaurs is exciting. Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt have delivered decent performances but their character graphs are not well etched out.
“65” is banal survival saga eons ago which is unable to hold it’s ground.
**1/2