The Adam Driver-starring 65 should've been an exciting new take on dinosaur movies, but instead demonstrates a bleak reality about such films' future.
The Adam Driver-led 65 bombed with critics, continuing a disappointing trend with dinosaur movies that could signal their extinction. 65 stars Adam Driver as Mills, a pilot whose spacecraft crashes into Earth over 65 million years ago when dinosaurs still roamed the planet. While trying to find a way off the planet and protecting the only other survivor, a young girl named Koa, Driver’s character Mills finds himself in a battle with killer T. rex and other pre-extinct dinosaurs.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY After being delayed by a year, the March 2023 movie 65 debuted to mostly negative reviews from critics and a lukewarm box office opening. At the time of writing, 65’s Rotten Tomatoes score is at 35%, which is the lowest score of Adam Driver’s career. While Driver’s performance was praised, the film was criticized for its slow pace and lack of action and humor compared to classic dinosaur movies like Jurassic Park.
However, bad reviews for dinosaur movies didn’t simply start over the last few years, as other notable installments in the 2010s failed to live up to critical expectations. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom received mixed reviews from critics and audiences, so the critical flop of its sequel Jurassic World Dominion shouldn’t have been surprising.
65's Critical Failure Hints At The End Of Dinosaur Movies The big streak of dinosaur movies failing with critics could signal an end to the subgenre for the time being. While movies in the Jurassic Park franchise will likely always do well at the box office, it seems the novelty of dinosaurs attacking has worn off, with the quality of such stories going away with it.
The original 1993 Jurassic Park movie will continue to be the quintessential dinosaur feature, but it’s a sad reality that it may be the last great action/sci-fi story centered around the concept. While 65’s sci-fi movie bomb could mean a temporary end to dinosaur films receiving big budgets with huge stars that will sign on to lead them, there’s still potential for filmmakers to take the creatures and add something new to their roles in action-horror premises.
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