These guys, Beck and Woods, love themselves a concept. They write A QUIET PLACE, where making any noise sentences you to monstrous death, so in order to survive the movie, you've gotta shut the absolute fuck up.
Now, they return, not only as writers, but also directors with 65, which plays like a 10-year-old's trip down the rabbit hole.
"DUDE. Who'd win in a fight, a spaceman or a dinosaur?"
"Dinosaur all day!"
"But the space guy has a laser shotgun and tiny marble grenades!"
Argue this over the span of two recesses & this movie's foundation is already set. What's left is a charter pilot's (Adam Driver) attempt to survive after an asteroid crash leaves him stranded on Earth in the Cretaceous Period. His only remaining companion? A 9-year-old girl (Ariana Greenblatt) who doesn't speak his language.
So let's update the question. Who wins: a stranded spaceman & a 9-year-old girl, equipped with laser shotgun and a pocket full of marble grenades or a valley full of dinosaurs who only know the thoughts "hunt, kill, eat"?
The correct answer is us, the moviegoers, because this movie relentlessly rules.
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Closing Song: "I Could Give You All That You Don't Want" - The Twilight Sad
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