Mills, played by Adam Driver, is hired to pilot a long-term space flight transporting cryogenically frozen people from his planet to another. He doesn’t want to be away from his family for the two years it’ll take to complete the job but his daughter Navine, played by Chloe Coleman (My Spy, Marry Me), needs medicine for an unknown illness and the job is how he’ll pay for the treatment. There’s an accident and the ship goes off-course into unknown regions of space, crash landing on Earth 65 million years ago. Only Mills and a young passenger named Koa, played by Ariana Greenblatt (The Boss Baby 2, In the Heights), survive the event and are forced to evade dinosaurs en route to their escape pod.
Driver is great and Greenblatt is outstanding with what they’re given. Unfortunately, they weren’t given much.
This is a film that was doomed the second the trailer dropped. Giving away the mystery that the foreign celestial body is actually Earth was a massive misstep. That could’ve been a fun twist, sitting in the theater realizing “Oh! They crash landed on Earth 65 million years ago!” Instead, they gave that away presumably because some suit who has no business making creative decisions wanted to meddle in a creative project.
This movie could’ve been so much more and the actors deserved better. A lot better. Save your money and treat 65 like it’s extinct.
JKG SCORE: 4.5
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