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65, a Sci-Fi adventure starring acclaimed indie actor and Star Wars favourite Adam Driver came out last week in the UK, but unless you were following very closely, you wouldn’t know it. So what exactly is wrong with the film that warranted such a cloak-and-dagger release - 65 wasn’t screened to critics and had very little publicity around it. Well, a lot, actually.
After accepting a mission that is set to take him away from his wife Alya (Nika King) and ailing daughter Nevine (Chloe Coleman), astronaut Mills (Driver) crash lands on Earth 65 million years ago whilst transporting a number of people kept in cryogenic sleep. Alongside the only other survivor, a young girl named Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), Mills battles to stay alive in a prehistoric world where dinosaurs roam the Earth.
Aside from a puzzlingly meandering screenplay, 65’s biggest problem is that it gets the science very wrong. With 65 relating to the number of million years since the end of the Cretaceous period - which was ended by a planet-killing asteroid - it is important to mention that in the last decade, geologists have revised that number to 66 million years ago, which means had Driver’s character crash landed at that period, he would've encountered a completely different set of obstacles and no dinosaurs at all.
