It's enough to make you wonder if writer/director partners Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ script was meddled with by the studio to get a little bit of something for everyone into the precise 90-minute runtime. 65 is definitely meant to appeal to a broader audience: people who want cute kid stories (like watching Mills try to explain things to Koa, who struggles to understand) people who want heartbreaking family stories (like when Mills finally accepts Koa and gives her a big hug) there is even a story for people looking for something with an adorable animal (when Koa decides to risk it all to save a baby dinosaur from a tar pit). I was hoping for hard sci-fi action I got very little of that. This film had far too much family drama to keep my interest. It tells you what it is up front, and delivers exactly that. There is no surprise plot device halfway through, nor is there a twist ending.

The plot is thin and is ultimately little more than a logline. Along the way, Koa has to learn to trust Mills Mills has to learn to open his heart to Koa and the pair must dodge dinosaurs and treacherous terrain. So there's your story.Ī fairly rote adventure flick follows, with Mills and Koa trying to escape Earth before the asteroid that eradicates the dinosaurs hits the planet.

She doesn't speak English, her parents are dead, and they have to find the other half of their spaceship, which has the escape module. Mills is the only survivor until he discovers Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), a nine-year-old girl who survived in the cryopod. During the flight, his spaceship is hit by an asteroid and crashes on an uncharted planet (Earth).

We are not privy to what that special project is, but it involves Mills flying a spaceship full of cryopods to another planet.

Mills (Adam Driver) is a father who leaves his wife and daughter for two years to take on a special project that will pay him extra-money that will go to his ailing daughter's hospital bills. Though we see nothing more than the beach, the people look like humans. The movie starts 65 million years ago on Solaris, a planet similar to Earth. What I ended up getting was a fairly traditional, if not hollow, adventure with a focus more on family than on giant space lizards, which is unfortunate. Based solely on the trailers, I went into 65 thinking it was going to be an epic time travel tale with dinosaurs as the main antagonists.

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