65

I have been anticipating 65 for almost two years and I finally had the chance to see it at a Thursday preview last night.  It seems to be getting a lot of bad reviews for some reason but I really liked it! 65 million years ago Commander Mills (Adam Driver) is leading a long-range exploratory mission in space with passengers in cryogenic stasis.  An asteroid forces the ship to crash land on Earth, splitting it in half and killing most of the passengers.  Mills eventually discovers one survivor, a young girl named Koa (Ariana Greenblatt), and makes the decision to try to find the rest of the ship, which is some distance away, because it contains the escape pod.  In order to get to the ship they must contend with dinosaurs and another asteroid on a collision course with Earth but Mills must also deal with his guilt over leaving his daughter behind to lead this mission and Koa must deal with her grief over the death of her family from the crash.  The action sequences are great and the CGI is pretty good because I didn't find it distracting.  The scenes involving the dinosaurs are actually quite scary (I jumped out of my seat at one point) with a menacing score that adds to the tension.  Driver is fantastic in an incredibly physical role (you can definitely tell that he is a former Marine by the way he moves and handles all of the weapons) and he is able to portray so much without a lot of dialogue. The survival story is compelling but I particularly enjoyed the father-daughter relationship between Mills and Koa.  There are some really tender scenes between them, especially when he teachers her how to whistle and when she rescues him from some quicksand.  I thoroughly enjoyed this (and not just because Driver looks really good in it) and I recommend that you ignore the critics and go see it!