Adam Driver’s ‘65’ Movie Is On Netflix And It Low-Key Rules

Attention lovers of big, dumb dinosaur movies: 65 is now streaming on Netflix, and it is the ultimate big, dumb dinosaur movie for a drunk Saturday night watch.

Listen, take away my Cinema Studies degree if you must, but I liked the big, dumb Adam Driver dinosaur movie, OK? It low-key rules. Here’s the premise: Adam Driver is an alien whose spaceship crash-lands on Earth… 65 million years ago. Maybe you saw that epic plot-twist trailer? If not, you likely didn’t know about the movie, thanks to its non-existent marketing campaign. Which is a shame, because, again, it rules.

The movie was written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, aka the same duo who wrote A Quiet Place. But this time, rather than remain as silent as humanly possible, Adam Driver must defend himself—as well as the young alien girl (Ariana Greenblatt) who also survives the crash—by fighting the goddamn dinosaurs. And you better believe that includes the mighty T-Rex. It’s a chaotic, blatantly derivative combination of Jurassic Park, Alien, and Star Trek, and it’s exactly what I wanted it to be.

Is it reinventing any sci-fi, horror, or monster movie tropes? Nope! Not even a little bit! Rather than bend over backward trying to reinvent the wheel, it’s just pure, simple, straightforward fun. It’s like the Jurassic World movies if the Jurassic World movies dropped all the extraneous, over-stuffed plot nonsense. You’ve got your dino fights, you’ve got your pre-historic geysers, and you’ve even got a cameo appearance from that pesky meteor. It’s bound to delight the inner 5th-grade science nerd in you. Plus, this is the only dinosaur movie I’ve seen yet that posits dinosaurs are actually just really big cats. Honestly, groundbreaking.

Also? It’s a tight 95 minutes. It doesn’t get any better than that!