Can a horror/ski-fi/thriller set 65 million years ago on a prehistoric planet also be a familiar and touching story? If there’s Adam Driver in the middle, in a distracting form despite the very few jokes, then yes. If we have teased your curiosity, we are ready to reveal what we are talking about. On January 5, 2026, he arrived on TV in clear 65: escape from the earth, written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (who are the screenwriters of A Quite Place) and produced by Sam Raimi. We have in front of a film that holds everything on the feeling, despite its exaggerated colossal ties with dinosaurs and ships. And anyway, we fell in full. Not for everyone, but to see.
65: fuga dalla terra, una storia così così…
Mills is a space pilot, a father and a husband. His daughter, who he loves more than his own life, is very sick and to cure Mills often embarks on long distance exploration trips. What he is about to leave will last 2 years, and the man is worried about losing so much of his daughter’s life.
Little time jump. Mills is piloting a ship full of people kept cryogenically when something goes wrong. The ship, hit by an unexpected meteorite storm, crashes on a hostile and clearly primitive planet. It’s Earth 65 million years ago. He thinks he is the only survivor, but he is not like this: together with him on earth there is Koa, a 9-year-old girl who does not speak his language. Will this strange duo recover the functioning half of the ship and escape the dinosaurs?
…per una interpretazione da urlo – 65: fuga dalla terra la recensione
This story waters all over. Why 65 million years ago were the other inhabitants of the galaxy human beings speaking our language? It shouldn’t make sense. He doesn’t. Does it matter? Absolutely not. It doesn’t matter this and it doesn’t matter historical fidelity, it doesn’t matter the accuracy of the dinosaurs or their end, no matter if to arrive at the end of the adventure we had to see a t-rex (?) die burnt alive over a geyser (????), no matter that we didn’t say anything about the daughter’s disease or that we will never have any more news of the wife. 65: escape from the earth asks us a big suspension of unbelief, and in return gives us a deep and silent history, dark and dusty, made of pain, hands, gestures and hugs, incommunity and humanity.
Sony
Adam Driver in the role of the protagonist of traditionally defined films “action” proves more than height, physical when it must be physical, expressive at the limits of possible, especially because this film is really very dark and he is really very dirty. The dialogues are at a minimum, and Driver takes a film that without him would be absolutely forgotten, and instead it is surprising. No more indie movies, no more Baumbach, Star Wars, the actor of Girls discovered his real niche.
Il cast
Adam Driver interprets Mills, a shipwrecked by pain. Ariana Greenblatt is Koa, the only surviving man with him. Chloe Coleman is Mills’ daughter, Nevine.
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