65

This week's movie rental was 65 ...

a 2023 American science fiction action thriller film ... starring Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt.

The basic plot is that Driver's character takes a two year interstellar piloting job away from home to earn enough money to save his sick daughter. The ship is hit by asteroids and crashes on Earth at a time when dinosaurs ruled - 65 million years ago. And unfortunately, also at the time when the Chicxulub crater was created by a massive asteroid strike.

Sadly, the movie didn't get great reviews. Here's one from Variety ...

‘65’ Review: Adam Driver Battles Dinosaurs and Other Stone-Age Story Ideas in Derivative Thriller

Despite its position as one of the seeming few big-scale “original” sci-fi films to compete with franchises, sequels and reboots for box office real estate, “65” is Frankensteinian at best. Cobbled together from (admittedly some of the best) parts of “Jurassic Park,” “The Descent,” “Armageddon” and more, Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ post-“A Quiet Place” level-up too strongly resembles its forebears to break new, much less particularly interesting ground. Yet anchored by another in a series of committed performances from Adam Driver and an ensemble of suitably menacing prehistoric beasts that chase him for just over 90 minutes, Beck and Woods’ adventure delivers requisite thrills even if its creativity seems stuck in the distant cinematic past ...

I did like the movie. Adam Driver is a really good actor, so it's worth a watch for that, but also the special effects are pretty good.