Obviously this is what the writers and director of this movie thought when titling this movie as 65 when the actual Cretaceous Paleogene extinction occured 66 million years ago. It's only a million years, right? Who's going to know? A similar shoddy approach runs through the entire movie. The motivation for Adam Driver's character to sign up for a 2 year space mission is his daughter is sick with a life threatening desease. This is a civilisation which has developed interstellar flight and cryostasis but can't cure cancer?
The ship encounters a meteor field and crash lands on an uncharted planet which is actually Earth 65 million years ago. From this we can conclude the ship crashed on Earth on it's journey to it's intended destination as it still had all it's passengers on board, meaning the ship had been traveling for some time up to a year by this time. An important point as it would follow that any rescue mission would also take the same time to arrive on site. But in this movie it takes less than 48 hours for help to arrive.
The Earth of 65 million years ago is depicted as a cool wet mix of deciduous and coniferous forest, very similar to the USA Pacific Northwest. However the climate of the late Cretaceous was much warmer and more humid than present day with high levels of volcanic activity. The environment would be a dense tropical forest providing ample food for the prey animals of the large predators to feed on. The environment shown in the movie simply wouldn't have been able to sustain those large predators.
So much for the shoddy writing, inaccurate environment and plot holes, but is 65 any good. Surprisingly it isn't bad and Adam Driver's understated performance drags what should be a hum drum average at best affair to above average. The pacing is good, special effects are adequate, production values and design aren't ground breaking but again are adequate to get the job done. It's also reasonably short at about 97 minutes so it doesn't outstay it's welcome. If you can overlook it's many short comings there is some entertainment to be had with 65.
The ship encounters a meteor field and crash lands on an uncharted planet which is actually Earth 65 million years ago. From this we can conclude the ship crashed on Earth on it's journey to it's intended destination as it still had all it's passengers on board, meaning the ship had been traveling for some time up to a year by this time. An important point as it would follow that any rescue mission would also take the same time to arrive on site. But in this movie it takes less than 48 hours for help to arrive.
The Earth of 65 million years ago is depicted as a cool wet mix of deciduous and coniferous forest, very similar to the USA Pacific Northwest. However the climate of the late Cretaceous was much warmer and more humid than present day with high levels of volcanic activity. The environment would be a dense tropical forest providing ample food for the prey animals of the large predators to feed on. The environment shown in the movie simply wouldn't have been able to sustain those large predators.
So much for the shoddy writing, inaccurate environment and plot holes, but is 65 any good. Surprisingly it isn't bad and Adam Driver's understated performance drags what should be a hum drum average at best affair to above average. The pacing is good, special effects are adequate, production values and design aren't ground breaking but again are adequate to get the job done. It's also reasonably short at about 97 minutes so it doesn't outstay it's welcome. If you can overlook it's many short comings there is some entertainment to be had with 65.