History Film / SixtyFive

'''Previews:''' [[https://youtu.be/bHXejJq5vr0 Trailer 1]]

* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: There's an "irregularity" in the sky of the planet and Mills isn't sure what it is at first, giving his handheld computer time to figure out what it is. Predictably, it's not just ''an'' asteroid, it's ''the'' asteroid, [[spoiler:and Mills and Koa barely escape Earth before it impacts]].

* WhatMeasureIsANonCute: Most of the animals seem to be intentionally designed to be as nasty and vicious-looking as possible, with [[LeanAndMean gaunt, emaciated frames]], [[FangsAreEvil misaligned snaggletoothed jaws]], [[DarkIsEvil uniformly black or dark grey hides]], [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent naked scaly skin for animals we know were actually heavily feathered]], [[SpikesOfVillainy random spines and spikes jutting from their bodies]], [[PredatorsAreMean all carnivorous]], [[{{Phlegmings}} frequently slobbering]], and [[SuperPersistentPredator being ridiculously savage and bloodthirsty]], routinely prioritizing killing the protagonists own their own survival. This makes it less likely for the audience to feel bad when Mills slaughters them by the dozens despite [[NonMaliciousMonster not actually being villainous]].

* ShownTheirWork: While lacking in feathers, the large theropod that appears in the trailer has bird like pupils and an accurate reptilian palette. Further teasers reveal it has snake-like scales on its stomach, something discovered in ''Allosaurus''.

* OrificeInvasion: At one point a prehistoric insect manages to house itself inside Koa's mouth, which Mills is tipped off to when he sees her coughing up puss in her sleep.

* CoolVsAwesome: Badass alien soldier Creator/AdamDriver vs Dinosaurs.

* DavidVersusGoliath: The final battle has Mills and Koa going up against a pair of T-Rexes, followed by the quadrupedal theropod that attacked them in the cave earlier. They manage to kill all three of them.

* NeverTrustATitle: As any paleontologist or dino-geek would tell you, the KT-meteorite that caused the extinction of the dinosaur actually collided with earth sixty six million years ago, not sixty five, which means the film takes place a million years too late, however it’s more understandable that the filmmakers used the title "65" as it is the more well known number that a casual moviegoer would associate with the extinction of the dinosaurs.

* TimeTitle: After the first act of the film plays with no title, "65" appears on screen as an establishing shot of [[EarthAllAlong Earth]], before a brief OpeningScroll that [[ScriptWank re-establishes the premise]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:''When past meets future, who will survive?'']]

''65'' is a science fiction action film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (''Film/AQuietPlace'') and produced by Creator/SamRaimi. It stars Creator/AdamDriver and Creator/ArianaGreenblatt.

The film was released on March 10, 2023.

* DavidVersusGoliath: The final battle has Mills going up against a pair of T-Rexes, followed by the theropod that attacked them in the cave earlier. He manages to kill all three of them.

* ViewerFriendlyInterface: Similar to the Pulse Rifles from ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Mills' assault rifle has a light-up bar on the sides that shows how many bullets remain in the magazine, which is good for Mills when he needs to quickly check how many bullets he has in a fight and for the audience to see that he doesn't has BottomlessMagazines, increasing the tension in said fight.

** While pop-culture has immortalized 65 million years ago as the time when the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed the non-avian dinosaurs occurred, according to radiometric dating it happened 66 million years ago -- a million years before the movie's events, supposedly, take place.

** Most of the dinosaurs are amalgamations of generic saurian features mushed together rather than anything recognizable from the fossil record. Most obviously with the giant quadruped tyrannosaur, which is like nothing known to have existed during the Cretaceous Period.
*** The late quadruped might be an attempt to depict a rauisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with erect gaits and strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls, some of which like ''Fasolasuchus'' could get to pretty large sizes. Many of them were likely capable of semi-quadrupedal locomotion as well (though some are thought to have been obligate bipeds). If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looks ''too'' much like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and has the wrong body anatomy, and it is still ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs, not at the end of the Cretaceous.

** The pterosaurs, although fairly good for what is ostentatiously a mid-budget B-movie, have teeth and long tails; long-tailed pterosaurs are last known from the Late Jurassic, while pterosaurs with teeth are last known from about ninety million years ago, long before the K-Pg boundary. Furthermore, closer inspection reveals their eyes are modeled in their ''nostrils''.

** The large quadruped T-Rex like dinosaur during the film's climax is allegedly a Fasolasuchus which, like the alleged Lagosuchus, hailed during the late Triassic not the Cretaceous.

* {{Robinsonade}}: As his narration in the trailer explains, the main character is trapped with a young girl on an alien world... or rather, prehistoric Earth.

* AncientAstronauts: Averted. While there are aliens, and they visit Earth in the Cretaceous, they leave no lasting impact, aside from a vague hint that they might have settled Earth some time after the film's events.

* OhCrap: Mills gets two in quick succession in the finale; when his gun runs out of power just as a ''second'' Tyrannosaurus arrives; then when it looks like he'll be able to escape, the Fasolasuchus he shot earlier looms out of the darkness, intent in revenge.

* SuperPersistentPredator: All of the dinosaurs in the film consistently ignore easier or more accessible prey in favour of chasing down the protagonists. At one point a lean quadrupedal dinosaur kills a pterosaur, but quickly abandons its kill just to go after Koa.

* ContrivedCoincidence: The escape pod that is needed to get the two protagonists off the planet just happens to be at ground zero for the giant meteor that is going to hit the Earth in a few hours.
* Both parts of this ship land completely level with the ground around them, not at an angle.

''65'' is a science fiction action film written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (''Film/AQuietPlace'') and produced by Creator/SamRaimi. It stars Creator/AdamDriver and Creator/AriannaGreenblatt.

* MinimalistCast: There are only 4 onscreen human (or rather alien) characters in the entire movie. which include Mills, Koa, Mills’ wife, and Nevine. Literally the only other humans are seen as dead corpses when the ship Mills is on crashes.

* SuperPersistentPredator: All of the dinosaurs in the film consistently ignore easier or more accessible prey in favour of chasing down the protagonists.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Mills's wife is never revealed. Also, [[spoiler:a final hologram of Nevine mastering the whistle can be seen, but it is unknown if this is really her]].

*** The late quadruped might be an attempt to depict a rauisuchian, prehistoric crocodile relatives with erect gaits and strikingly tyrannosaur-like skulls, some of which like ''Fasolasuchus'' could get to pretty large sizes. Many of them were likely capable of semi-quadrupedal locomotion as well (though some are thought to have been obligate bipeds). If that's the case, then they are still inaccurate in that it looks ''too'' much like a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and has the wrong body anatomy, and it is still ''much'' too large. They also lived in the Triassic with the very first dinosaurs, not at the end of the Cretaceous

* MinimalistCast: There are only 4 onscreen human (or rather alien) characters in the entire movie.