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65 review: Timing is a bit off in Adam Driver's dinosaur thriller

The premise of this science fiction film from Scott Beck and Bryan Woods doesn't hold up to close scrutiny and the narrative can be jarringly slow-paced

By Linda Marric

29 March 2023

Adam Driver stars in 65.

Adam Driver stars in 65.

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65
Scott Beck and Bryan Woods
On general release in cinemas

AFTER an asteroid hits his spaceship, astronaut Mills (Adam Driver) crash-lands on Earth while transporting a cargo of intergalactic voyagers kept in cryosleep. But this turns out to be Earth 65 million years ago and, alongside the only other survivor, a young girl named Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), Mills must stay alive in a prehistoric world populated by killer dinosaurs.

That is the premise of 65, a new film written and directed by Scott Beck …

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